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#EVGA 1080 INSTALL#
EVGA would be well-advised to simply install the two thermal pads in mass production and leave the new firmware on its site as an optional download.
#EVGA 1080 UPDATE#
If the ACX 3.0-equipped cards are used in cases with at least moderate airflow, the BIOS update is superfluous. In the end, though, it’s the final result that matters, and EVGA did successfully solve its issue. The company should have probably reacted faster to counter the forum posts from unhappy customers discussing poor thermal performance. Two months passed after we first contacted EVGA at the beginning of September and the publication of this update on Tom’s Hardware DE. In the end, the BIOS update gets a small question mark, though we can at least understand it’s easier to implement than a hardware modification. If the thermal pads themselves do the trick, perhaps it’s possible to ignore the software side altogether.Ī more moderate curve would have left the card between 37 and 38 dB(A), and sufficiently cooled. Third, we’ll combine all of the aforementioned modifications together with the new BIOS.ĭoing so should tell us if it’s really necessary to flash EVGA’s firmware and accept the disadvantage of higher noise levels. Second, we’ll test the previously installed pad and another pad between the front plate and heat sink’s cooling fins. First, we’ll test the pad between the back of the board and the backplate. Furthermore, the newest retail cards will come with the new BIOS versions already installed.īecause we are curious to see how much the new pads affect EVGA’s cards, we’ll test them in three steps.
#EVGA 1080 MOD#
This change applies to the pads included in the thermal mod we requested, and those in mass production as well. As of mid-November, EVGA will make its thermal pads 0.2 mm thicker, just to be 100% sure there aren’t any issues. And since the thermal pads on the memory modules are kept as thin as possible, that could lead to the reported behavior. There could, however, be gaps in the case of a GeForce GTX 1070 with this same type of cooler if the GDDR5 memory modules are a different height than the GDDR5X modules on 1080 cards. This is also the case if the backplate has been reattached, but the additional screws holding the front panel have not been screwed back in during reassembly. Our observation is that if the backplate is removed, and then the additional screws holding the front panel are removed as well, that plate is bent in such a way that it leaves a slightly angled gap, which looks very similar to these images. Thus, if a thermal pad is stuck to a plate now, at the very least it had to have firmer contact at some earlier point in time. The front plate is attached later, together with the backplate. Thermal pads are almost exclusively glued onto the memory modules first. To better understand what this means, it’s necessary to know a bit about how graphics cards are manufactured. Furthermore, the pictures on the Internet all show the pads sticking to the front cover, and the gap is between the memory module and thermal pad. In every case, the pads were placed correctly, even if they weren’t a tight fit. Since we are using the same card as before, the results are directly comparable. In order to address some of the challenges originally posed by EVGA’s card, we drilled two holes into the backplate, right above the two hottest points identified in our previous tests, and cut a circular part off the thermal pads to give our infrared camera a clearer view of the board.
#EVGA 1080 FULL#
Customers who do not feel comfortable updating the BIOS or who damage their card installing the thermal pad will receive EVGA’s full support, the company says.įor our part, we committed to a re-test once EVGA implemented its planned changes, and that’s what you see going live alongside our GeForce GTX 1080 round-up. EVGA also offers optional thermal pads to any affected customer who requests them. Back in November, we published EVGA Addresses GeForce GTX 1080 FTW PWM Temperature Problems, linking to new BIOS versions for five different cards. Re-Testing After EVGA's Thermal ModificationĬlearly, something needed to be done.
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