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EVGA terminates relationship with NVIDIA
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About 18 months after launch I got an email from EVGA to say I could buy the the FTW 4090 card I was in the queue for. It certainly wasnt at the old launch price though............
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Sorry but I don't understand gibberish.
Nvidia CEO’s response to the EVGA controversy may surprise you
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has responded to the recent EVGA controversy. He also talked about the recent export restrictions.www.digitaltrends.com
Who was it that kept saying once crypto dies GPUs will return to normal prices? 4 figures are the normal prices it seems.
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Yep. People really soak up this bandwagon narrative but the reality is kicking in.
Prices never ever comes down. Look at all the years of supermarkets. Your weekly grocery bill. It never comes down, all the years and decades I can remember. All it happens is you get less food for your money. The items and quantities shrink but the prices keeps rising.
This isn't any different to any technology. Once the prices rise, they stay there for a while until another hike. Remember the days in 2003 and 2012/13 when you'd get a high end CPU for £150 - £375. Now today most aren't below £500. Some over £700 - £800. To even think once a high end flagship GPU was once £475 - £550. Even 2017 an EVGA 1080Ti was £799 - £899 and I remember balking at it but I needed it.
Then a year today I had to get a 3080Ti which I also cringed at big time which was £1,569.99, as I had broken a couple of capacitors off the 1080Ti. The backplate had stuck so hard to the thermal pads that the edges of the backplate popped off and clipped the capacitors next to the PCI-e lane. Costly mistake that I wish I had used the hair dryer to soften the pads to ease it off. As a water block was going to be placed on it at the time.
I'd imagine still to this day, the 1080Ti could be easily fixed. I'm honestly tempted to get it fixed now the fact EVGA is now going to be no more with VGAs.
This isn't any different to any technology. Once the prices rise, they stay there for a while until another hike. Remember the days in 2003 and 2012/13 when you'd get a high end CPU for £150 - £375. Now today most aren't below £500. Some over £700 - £800. To even think once a high end flagship GPU was once £475 - £550. Even 2017 an EVGA 1080Ti was £799 - £899 and I remember balking at it but I needed it.
Then a year today I had to get a 3080Ti which I also cringed at big time which was £1,569.99, as I had broken a couple of capacitors off the 1080Ti. The backplate had stuck so hard to the thermal pads that the edges of the backplate popped off and clipped the capacitors next to the PCI-e lane. Costly mistake that I wish I had used the hair dryer to soften the pads to ease it off. As a water block was going to be placed on it at the time.
I'd imagine still to this day, the 1080Ti could be easily fixed. I'm honestly tempted to get it fixed now the fact EVGA is now going to be no more with VGAs.
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Good summation, agree. The chocolate bars that appear the same but 25% less content inside.. for the exact same price!! Wow bargain.
The problem with the nvidia launch was the gimped 4080 was so gimped it made a 4070 irrelevant unless its mrsp £469. Thing is when Jensen said cheap cards are a thing of the past you know that there's a 30% tax to go on last times price with also a weakening pound. When it does launch its going to be somewhere like £600 unless all the prices drop in the space of 10 weeks.
The problem with the nvidia launch was the gimped 4080 was so gimped it made a 4070 irrelevant unless its mrsp £469. Thing is when Jensen said cheap cards are a thing of the past you know that there's a 30% tax to go on last times price with also a weakening pound. When it does launch its going to be somewhere like £600 unless all the prices drop in the space of 10 weeks.
Sorry I don't understand low IQ
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I'm so confused here. Wasn't he basically agreeing with you
So no exclusivity agreement with Nvidia. That means if and when the time is right, they can release AMD or Intel GPUs.
Watching that just reminded me I purchased the 5 year extended warranty. Was only €25 and I’m. It sure if it’s still valid as they only mentioned the 10 year warranty plan.
There was none available. I had to put in a pre-order for the Gigabyte Aorus waterblock card that was available at the time. Got it within 1 - 2 weeks of ordering it. With a warranty covered until 2025.
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Most likely the main HQ is in the US, but Taiwan could be where their GPU division was working at. Pretty good vid, it's amazing how quick the GPU repair was, especially since it's transplanting the entire GPU onto another board.
Makes you realise what we have lost doesn't it? EVGA wasn't just another GPU vendor, they had a genuine passion for what they did, something some Australian smooth brain who makes his money fitting Alibaba Chinese knock-off GPU's to 10 year old skip dumped office PC's to sell on FleaBay could never understand.
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I don't get it.. people want cheap GPUs and at the same time feel that Nvidia isn't playing fair with the founders edition. Contradictory stuff.. i believe there must be an elegant math proof hidden in there somewhere