Just want to mention I had my first EVGA failure. Shower of sparks from the PCIE VRM area, much like reports on reddit. Not sure if it was the VRMs or I just had a lemon. Rest of my EVGA cards are working fine. Mining Equihash doesn't remotely stress your cards, hopefully burn in will go smoothly with these. Stay away from MSI.
i had an EVGA burn last month.. fried pci riser (two of them). I got my rma waiting in Miami for me to pick it up (someday..).
Both MSi (micron) are also comming back from rma.. just got email last week.
Very bad experience with the 1070s... expensive.. profit plunged.. lack of miners... and defective cards.
My 4 years old 7950s are paying more...
ah.. forgot to say... 2 fried mobos from the 4x1070 rig, while changing algos (LBC to ETH). It seems the gpus took too much juice from the mobo while doing dagger.. and lifted tracks. (My fault, but never happened before with 7950/280x)
Tell me about buying a nvidia card again...