Folding Forum

Found at wccftech:

(1) Nvidia GTX 1080 & 1070 EVGA Cards Reportedly Catching Fire & Dying Due To VRMs Overheating
http://api.traq.li/story/viewall2/57308 ... ad2779a99c

(2) Nvidia GTX 1070 Memory Issue To Be Addressed Via BIOS Update
http://wccftech.com/nvidia-gtx-1070-memory-issue/

Arthur

Great just great.. SMH phones catching fire now video cards... All I need is my house to burn down throw these SOBs in the garbage and give up... Sick of cheap china junk...

EVGA is an American company that designed the card without adequate cooling for the VRM. Whoever they contracted to assemble the cards built them to EVGA's design.

... and in some versions of the drivers, thermally controlled fan speed control is inadequate (i.e.-non-functional).

I know I started getting a freeze and reboot when folding kicks in on my FE 1080s, I have to underclock them a little now. I upgraded drivers a few weeks ago on all 3 rigs, its the version before the one posted here about trashing everything. just figured it was that and possible new WU stressing the cards more. Guess I better check it out... 1070s are running fine, just bought two EVGA SC black I see I have a replace option at newegg gonna call them monday try for a refund. I have all fans set manual like 80%

EVGA offers some thermal pads to put in http://www.evga.com/thermalmod/

Thanks to this thread I have got my board registered and the thermal pads ordered for my EVGA GTX 1070 SC card. The last thing I need to do is burn down my house trying to Fold Proteins! I haven't seen much news about this anywhere else. I have posted to our Folding thread on my Team site as well...

Thanks for looking out for us!

EVGA GPUs constitute the vast majority of my folding slots. Always have been superbly reliable. Unfortunately, it's probably time to invest in a Halon fire suppression system for the rig racks. Damn, that sucks.

I registered mine but its not letting me get the pads says I have no registered products

But don't get panic this issue only can destroy your GPU and not burn your house.
It only could be seen in torture test with FurMark and I know no case where it happened while folding.

The EVGA 1070/1080 "Founders Edition" do NOT have this issue.

Still a lot of money to spend to have something burn up and quit cause of cutting corners or poor design its not right and uncalled for...

I recently had one EVGA 1070 FE card which caught fire so that fire alarm triggered. It was no joke. Have many other FE cards too but they have not gone up in flames yet.

A bios update will be released so fans go faster when gpu gets too hot.
https://www.techpowerup.com/227424/evga ... e-released

I asked a question after registering my card EVGA said it was one incident with furmark and the have updated the drivers and assured me there are no problems... They said the pads were optional ...

I think so too, no problem for normal use or folding. But if I had such evga card I would go for the pads.