boy this EVGA vrm issue sure is gonna need a lot of explaining to keep the haters away. it is ONLY ON THE FTW EDITION OF THE 1070 AND 1080 CARDS that a problem exists. the vrms are not directly cooled and have no thermal pads which was noted by a number of reviews i read. under certain conditions, a vrm may fail do to overheating. the video with it actually flaming up is not a good example since the card had already failed and he started up it again multiple times after it failed. the integrity of the board was already compromised and when multiple times power was supplied, something shorted and gave a nice little light show.
so again, only the 1070 and 1080 FTW edition of cards is effected and it takes a poor airflow case with high internal temps, long term near max gpu loads and a smiting by the pc gods for the vrms to even fail. until tom's exposed the issue, there have been no reports of cards failing. but now that the issue is known, sites are stressing the crap out of the cards to see what happens. there were no reports of the cards failing from normal gaming sessions EVER that i have seen reported anywhere. if you have one, request the thermal pads or return the card for a replacement and problem solved. obviously a poor decision by EVGA how they laid out the cooling but they'll fix it and eat all the costs they encounter without batting an eye.
give it a couple months and new FTW cards will come already updated with thermal pads and this will drift out of everyone's mind until the next time amd has a problem and folks bring this back up again to defend amd (as if that somehow makes the next issue "ok" or something)