Evga geforce gtx 1080 ftw watch your vrm catch fire

A little over a week ago, alarms went off about the EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW and the overheating problems of the VRM components that these cards have been experiencing. The magnitude of the problem is larger than initially thought and one of these cards has already seen its VRM catch fire.

Burning the VRM of an EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW

The user Michael Dunca has published a video in which he sees how his graphics card suffers a short circuit at the time of starting the computer, it is curious that it happened at a time when the card load is not very high, which which suggests that its components were already on the verge of suffering irreparable damage that has just occurred at that precise moment. The affected models are all that include the EVGA Dual Fan cooling system, which includes the ACX, SC, FTW and FTW DT models, with the Classified series the only one to be saved.

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EVGA is aware of the problem and will provide thermal pads to all users free of charge to place over the VRM components, something that will not prevent the cards have been suffering so far and see their useful life shortened. EVGA also gives users the option to have their cards shipped to them so that they can be their professionals by attaching the pads.

Source: tweaktown