Chances of my 1070 blowing up?

[IsmetGS]

I have a EVGA GTX 1070 FTW and i am aware of the stories of the card burning and catching fire etc.

 

But what are the actual chances that this will happen to my card, especially on a overclock?

[ForsakenLive]

Just get the thermal pads and you'll be alright 

[IsmetGS]

1 minute ago, ForsakenLive said:

Just get the thermal pads and you'll be alright 

yeah i ordered them like two weeks ago, still not here

[Techicolors]

You can always send it in to EVGA and they'll install them for you. 

[m0k]

5 minutes ago, IsmetUcur said:

yeah i ordered them like two weeks ago, still not here

why risk the damage
turn return to stock speeds until you can apply the fix

or even set your GPU to throttle lower until its fixed

[IsmetGS]

Just now, mok said:

why risk the damage
turn return to stock speeds until you can apply the fix

or even set your GPU to throttle lower until its fixed

Oh yeah ofcourse, i have set the power limit to 92%, but i really want to F*cking over clock the beast and use its full potential.

 

But i was just wondering what the chances are of it actually blowing up lel

[The Sloth]

1 minute ago, IsmetUcur said:

Oh yeah ofcourse, i have set the power limit to 92%, but i really want to F*cking over clock the beast and use its full potential.

 

But i was just wondering what the chances are of it actually blowing up lel

 

depends on the card as you may know 1070s have ranges some might not even need the pad other do so don't risk anything 

[Mira Yurizaki]

I'mma toot my own horn here:

tl;dr - this isn't a temperature problem, it's likely due to bad caps. So it's really up in the air what the chances are. EVGA however said their official defect rate is 0.02%. But this is for people who actually went through the RMA process.

[191x7]

First of all, flash the latest bios available for the card.

Second, apply the thermal pads, either the ones from EVGA or some you have lying around.