With this being said, EVGA understands that lower temperatures are preferred by reviewers and customers.ĭuring our recent testing, we have applied additional thermal pads between the backplate and the PCB and between the baseplate and the heatsink fins, with the results shown below. The results in both tests show the temperature of PWM and memory is within the spec tolerance under the same stress test, and is working as originally designed with no issues. EVGA has performed a similar qualification test during the design process, at a higher ambient temperature (30C in chamber) with a thermal coupler probe directly contacting the key components and after the Toms Hardware (Germany) review, we have retested this again. We believe this is a good approach to have some idea about the graphics card limit, and the thermal performance under the worst case scenario. 'The test used in the referenced review from Toms Hardware (Germany) is running under Furmark, an extreme usage case, as most overclockers know. In a forum post at EVGA the company issued the following message/statement: Some reports show temperatures running 107 ✬ on components on the PCB. From the looks of it the issue has been uncovered due to the absence of any thermal pads over the VRM area of the FTW family of graphics cards. Some users even reported the card dying completely. However reports from end users and some testing at Toms Hardware indicate overheating.

The company made a statement and issues a fix. Initially people figured this to be the memory issue exposed last week. There is chatter on the web that EVGA FTW 10 graphics card are overheating resulting into a black screen.

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