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The Final Days of EVGA's GPU Division - Building the Last Video Card


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Talk about such a major loss to the industry. Love just watching the talent in this video as they cobbled together a working 4090 to get world records one last time on EVGA hardware, and it was genuinely interesting to watch how the repair center worked to salvage working GPUs.

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...too lazy to retype what I wrote on another forum re. this vid, so...

"......very, very sad to see EVGA go. Since vbios and NVidia approval are becoming ever more important, it also raises the question again how Galax HoF gets away with it, and even Asus for that matter. Galax though belongs to the Palit Microsystems group which includes Palit, Daytona, Gainward, Yuan, Vivkoo, KFA2 (Galax) and XpertVision. In addition, it does a fair amount of contract manufacturing...bottom line, it is the largest supplier of GPUs worldwide, so that must pull some weight with NVidia when asking for extra leeway...

The above vid also gives me some additional respect for Krisfix.de who does similar repairs and 'core re/mounting' but as part of a much smaller team - comes down to both immense skills and the right equipment on hand. Then there is the 'secret-revealed' GPU core lapping technique which had already been shown by DerBauer and Luumi (on KPE cards, btw) on YT a year+ ago...Finally, I do have a Speedway run which 3DM tagged as 'valid' and which would beat the world record shown in the vid. Of course, it had 'some artefacts'🤪 and I did not sub that...in fact, I have subbed far less at 3DM and other places as of late even with clean new runs because it is so polluted now.

I do think that the exit of EVGA is a sad turn of events for us enthusiasts - they were leaders in oc'ing but also shared their stuff relatively freely (see EVBot flashing, custom KPE bios et al)."

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Really great video. I’m a little annoyed GN is putting good content behind paywalls. If he means to tell me that YouTube revenue, merch sales, and the tons of patreon subs they already have isn’t enough..

 

also curious if you bought merch if you get patreon with that..

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  On 15/01/2023 at 19:17, Sir Beregond said:

 

Talk about such a major loss to the industry. Love just watching the talent in this video as they cobbled together a working 4090 to get world records one last time on EVGA hardware, and it was genuinely interesting to watch how the repair center worked to salvage working GPUs.

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I really enjoyed that watch, to get some insight into the behind the scenes was really cool, and to see the team pull together one last time to thrash a 4090. It is a tremendous loss that EVGA is stepping out of the GPU game. I really wished that the relationship between EVGA and Nvidia could have been a better one, or smoothed out. However from what I know, Nvidia was being uncompromising. Huge loss for consumers and at the end of the day, this is a loss for Nvidia. They kind of shot themselves in the foot with this one.

 

  On 17/01/2023 at 01:30, acoustic said:

Really great video. I’m a little annoyed GN is putting good content behind paywalls. If he means to tell me that YouTube revenue, merch sales, and the tons of patreon subs they already have isn’t enough..

 

also curious if you bought merch if you get patreon with that..

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To be fair, I think it makes perfect sense. While it would be great to give everything away, the real world does not work that way 😞 I think people seem to believe that YT Revenue, Merch and Patreon alone brings in all the revenue needed for a team. However when you consider their office/lab space, the staff, component purchases for independent reviews, costs for journalism related trips, camera's lighting etc etc. That all mounts up QUICK and they need some way to fund it. 

 

If an outlet of any description provides good quality content that I enjoy on a frequent basis, I have always believed in supporting that continued effort. That is why I have a GN Mouse mat 😛

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I watched that video right after Steve released it. It was an excellent video and I am very sad that we have lost EVGA in the graphics card space.

 

With a couple of rare exceptions, every desktop graphics card that I have purchased since the time ATi was acquired by AMD has been made by EVGA. I feel lost without them as my go-to GPU provider. I have low confidence in the  product quality and warranty with other brands. Whenever possible, I choose EVGA for my components because their warranty and customer service is unmatched. Their competitors almost universally have a lousy warranty / RMA process. Their chief competitor in the enthusiast space has an atrocious and painful warranty support program that takes weeks to run its course and sometimes with unacceptable outcomes. That has never been my experience with EVGA.

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  On 21/01/2023 at 17:40, ENTERPRISE said:

To be fair, I think it makes perfect sense. While it would be great to give everything away, the real world does not work that way 😞 I think people seem to believe that YT Revenue, Merch and Patreon alone brings in all the revenue needed for a team. However when you consider their office/lab space, the staff, component purchases for independent reviews, costs for journalism related trips, camera's lighting etc etc. That all mounts up QUICK and they need some way to fund it. 

 

If an outlet of any description provides good quality content that I enjoy on a frequent basis, I have always believed in supporting that continued effort. That is why I have a GN Mouse mat 😛

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My only issue is that patreon and things like the GN Mouse mat are unfortunately not linked. I’ve supported GN by purchasing their merch, but that does not get me patreon access. I think it’s unfair to limit content behind patreon despite supporting their channel through merch purchases. I understand supporting their channel, and I’m not advocating for everything to be free. I just dislike the segregation of content based off patreon support, since it’s not linked with merch purchases.

 

 

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  On 26/01/2023 at 14:44, acoustic said:


My only issue is that patreon and things like the GN Mouse mat are unfortunately not linked. I’ve supported GN by purchasing their merch, but that does not get me patreon access. I think it’s unfair to limit content behind patreon despite supporting their channel through merch purchases. I understand supporting their channel, and I’m not advocating for everything to be free. I just dislike the segregation of content based off patreon support, since it’s not linked with merch purchases.

 

 

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I think that is a fair point. I have never thought about it like that before. 

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  On 26/01/2023 at 14:44, acoustic said:


My only issue is that patreon and things like the GN Mouse mat are unfortunately not linked. I’ve supported GN by purchasing their merch, but that does not get me patreon access. I think it’s unfair to limit content behind patreon despite supporting their channel through merch purchases. I understand supporting their channel, and I’m not advocating for everything to be free. I just dislike the segregation of content based off patreon support, since it’s not linked with merch purchases.

 

 

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Yeah I agree with this. I have bought merchandise before too when they were a lot smaller than they are now.

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The issue is the additional administration involved in manually adding people to Patreon platform that have purchased from the store.  No small task to keep on top of. Automation is also tricky unless there is an API to do that. 

 

It is worth noting that buying merchandise from them and Patreon are VERY different things. 

 

They are two different revenue streams. One is continual (Patreon) and the othe is a one off or infrequent (Store). Why would you give away a Patreon spot worth say $5 PER MONTH, for a SINGLE purchase of an item worth...well virtually any amount on their store. 

 

Their patreon is a reliable and continual income. Compromising that would be ill advised. So keeping Patreon and the Store separate is just good business sense. While GN is very community focused, they are a business and to stay afloat doing what they do, they need to operate that way.

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  On 26/01/2023 at 18:21, ENTERPRISE said:

The issue is the additional administration involved in manually adding people to Patreon platform that have purchased from the store.  No small task to keep on top of. Automation is also tricky unless there is an API to do that. 

 

It is worth noting that buying merchandise from them and Patreon are VERY different things. 

 

They are two different revenue streams. One is continual (Patreon) and the othe is a one off or infrequent (Store). Why would you give away a Patreon spot worth say $5 PER MONTH, for a SINGLE purchase of an item worth...well virtually any amount on their store. 

 

Their patreon is a reliable and continual income. Compromising that would be ill advised. So keeping Patreon and the Store separate is just good business sense. While GN is very community focused, they are a business and to stay afloat doing what they do, they need to operate that way.

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I think that is fair too. I certainly understand having to make a business viable and profitable and I also understand customer desire to obtain things with the least amount of financial commitment. 

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