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I received my thermal pads today after applying a month ago. They have also included some VRAM pads after that issue was also raised. However, I will have to wait until I go back to work next week to borrow some cleaning alcohol before applying them. I have been using Afterburner and setting the fans to 50% from idle and going to 90% at 80°C. I figured that should stop any issues for now.
For anyone that's missed this:
http://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/26...t-and-analysis
Think the title of this article says it all:
"Final EVGA VRM Torture Test: VRM Thermals Not the Killer of Cards "
So basically Internet hysteria :)
PS. A failure rate of 0.02% is minuscule!
PPS. Though I have both updated the Vbios and added the thermal pads myself. Cooler pretty much always equals better.
I was looking into buying an EVGA GTX 1070 however I think I may now opt for the MSI GTX 1070 Gaming
Fair enough. The MSI 1070/80 gaming are nice cards. My previous 4 cards (460/580/670/970) have all been MSI twin Frozr design and all have performed faultlessly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Raiyze
Though don't let the hyperbole about the EVGA cards put you off. There's basically nothing wrong with them. Mine runs nice and cool, quiet, no coil whine and overclocks well. Plus you get a 3 year fully transferable warranty (handy when selling on later). Fast RMA if anything goes wrong. And even the option of "cross shipping" if you have to return a card. All cards being sold now, will come with the amended Vbios and the "optional" extra thermal pads fitted. But as the testing I linked to above shows, neither of them is really necessary (IE. the card wont spontaneously combust as some articles would have you believe). The few failures they have had, all appear down to faulty components on the PCB and this can effect any electronic device. Over the last 20 years, I've had to return a KFA2 and a Gigabyte graphics card where something went "pop" on the PCB. It just appears that the assumption was then made (basically because of an article published by Toms Hardware in Germany), that any failures of EVGA's cards were down to overheating VRM circuitry. Which would appear now, not to be the case. If you believe EVGA... then a failure rate of 200 per one million units sold, is tiny!
Bit of a lottery buying any graphics card these days. Quite a few of the 1000 seem to be blighted by coil whine, regardless of manufacturer (including EVGA/MSI).
Not an EVGA fanboy myself. As I commented previously, my last few cards have been MSI. But I've also used Gigabyte, KFA, Zotac and ASUS (among others).
But I can understand why it might put some folks off.
Good luck whatever you decide to buy.