EVGA found itself in a bit of hot water late last year, water heated by insufficiently-cooled PWM circuits and memory chips on some…
EVGA found itself in a bit of hot water late last year, water heated by insufficiently-cooled PWM circuits and memory chips on some of the company’s flagship GeForce GTX 1070 and GTX 1080 graphics cards with ACX 3.0 coolers. To its credit, the company offered card owners help on several fronts, from delivering firmware updates that increased the fan speed under load to sending out thermal pads to connect the hot power delivery and memory components to the heatsink.
To ensure that its GeForces won’t suffer from similar issues again, EVGA is now offering GeForce GTX 1060, GTX 1070, and GTX 1080 graphics cards with what the company calls “ iCX Technology. “ The redesigned cards will be most easily identifiable by the SC2, SSC2, and FTW2 monikers.
The iCX badge refers collectively to updated PCB designs with more granular temperature monitoring on board, as well as revised coolers. The new cards sport an extra temperature sensor for the GPU core on top of the unit Nvidia bakes into the chip, three more sensors for the memory chips, and five additional sensors in the power delivery section of the card. The updated cooler keeps the RGB LED lighting from ACX 3.
