EVGA Allegedly Cuts Out Original Developer of Precision Overclocking App

[kitch9]

As a software developer I don't have a problem with what evga have done. If you are selling bespoke or semi-bespoke software to a large business then you need to provide good service levels and make the software cheaper and better than they could do in-house. Unwinder has clearly failed on some of this or we wouldn't be in this situation, and this happens all the time in the business world.

You need to be cheap enough so the nice big business doesn't decide to rip us nasty little people off?

I'll remember that.

 

[RichardH754]

You got me worried now setter!

I always have brought EVGA

 

[kedge]

Thanks for the heads up, downloading now, i have always liked EVGA's Precision X.

 

[Locky]

I wouldn't buy EVGA anyway, overpriced and the support is no better. Gigabyte or MSI for me.

 

[smogsy]

wouldnt buy EVGA again for a GPU either.

Had 2x 570s EVGA's 2.5GB model.

they run hotter than Ref cooler, throttled & support was bit meh to send it back is in germany as well!.

 

[Geeman1979]

You got me worried now setter!

I always have brought EVGA

Have no fear! I've RMA'd with them in the past and they're one of the best companies I've ever used.

 

[Silent_Scone]

All i can say is, dont do it on evga cards. Yes theyll promise theyll honour warranty. Which is a major lie, the slightest bit of dust or fluff on your card, theyll turn your warranty down. Theyre so bad they make asus look good. I wouldnt buy a flash drive of evga never mind a £300.00 + gpu.

Rubbish. Rubbish doesn't even cover the sentiment actually. I've never heard anyone complain about their RMA and I've never had any issues myself.

 

[Orangey]

I sent a fully working 680i board of to evga in germany for step up to 780i. Sent the board via rmsd, took pics of it cleaned with an air line. When it left my house it was sparkling clean. 2 months later, evga were in the middle of moving headquarters in germany. I got an email to say that my stepup was refused, due to brown dirt in the board. Which i knew to be a lie, they sent a 680i board back to me, not the one i had posted to them as i recorded serial numbers etc. Enquired about this via email, no response after a week i got a board back. Put the board back into my case, built my rig up only to find the board was dead. Once again i enquired with evga about what happened with my board, a month later got an email from one of their head guys in europe who replied with **** off and stop mailing us.

That's shocking but statute of limitations. 680i was donkeys years ago. Although if you know the guy who told you to **** off is still with the company, then you have a point.

 

[EVGAdominik]

I sent a fully working 680i board of to evga in germany for step up to 780i. Sent the board via rmsd, took pics of it cleaned with an air line. When it left my house it was sparkling clean. 2 months later, evga were in the middle of moving headquarters in germany. I got an email to say that my stepup was refused, due to brown dirt in the board. Which i knew to be a lie, they sent a 680i board back to me, not the one i had posted to them as i recorded serial numbers etc. Enquired about this via email, no response after a week i got a board back. Put the board back into my case, built my rig up only to find the board was dead. Once again i enquired with evga about what happened with my board, a month later got an email from one of their head guys in europe who replied with **** off and stop mailing us.

If that really worked like this for you I have to apologize for this!! Generally back in time when we did the movement EVGA Europe was a king of "franchise" and was doint a little bit their own thing. Short after the movement EVGA Europe got integrated in the EVGA Corp and since then we have also changed completly our therms and do also follow EVGAs world wide policy. I know, it will not help you anymore with all the trouble you had but I can give at least a guarantee that something like this will not happen again!! If you still have any communication of this please send it to [email protected]

 

[Silent_Scone]

Free Titan Blacks minimum compensation if he still has correspondence .


I've gone to town on a few companies in my time but never have I had a response that abrupt in writing...If true give the man free stuff.

 

[Baboonanza]

You need to be cheap enough so the nice big business doesn't decide to rip us nasty little people off?

I'll remember that.

Why else would business choose to buy third-party software? If you are a semi bespoke software business selling similar software to multiple customers you have to be doing something fundamentally wrong for them to think its worthwhile duplicating it in house.

 

[kitch9]

Why else would business choose to buy third-party software? If you are a semi bespoke software business selling similar software to multiple customers you have to be doing something fundamentally wrong for them to think its worthwhile duplicating it in house.

Yes, he was charging for his services. Evga clearly didn't like that. Rivatuner has been the best in the business for years and years, the guy obsessively provided the program and updated it when new cards were released for the community foc for long before the major companies decided to leverage it to further their brands.

There is nothing wrong with Evga writing their own program but to nick even a few lines of code is morally wrong, no matter how much you pay a lawyer to find holes in the T&C so you can pretend what you are doing is right.

Corporate apologises wind me up, this is a case of lawyers against the little guy, with a smarmy pr department spinning the situation.