I don't remember when my sign up was because EVGA'S site was a mess at launch day ..so I'm going to guess it was a day or two after launch day and my email came at 15:01 eastern
I'm with you on that. I had a 970 and had about the same results. Mine was an open box Asus Strix that I think the last owner overclocked to much. It ran great in Far Cry 4 but started to get empty polygons and other distortions. I might buy a replacement or wait to see what AMD is going to...
Or the people that say will they never buy Nvidia cards again and the next AMD card has some kind of issue,they will be here saying they'll never buy AMD again!