Edited September 17, 20222 yr by spit051261

Guess nobody saw this coming..  Fingers crossed this doesn't lead to firing hundreds of employees

way bad.  I have gravitated towards EVGA for the excellent builds they have done where the pure design has been made to really bring top line overclocker versions of Graphics cards.  While there are/have been oc cards from various brands the EVGA have consistently been purebreeds with most capabilities straight out of the box for generations. Think its a big loss for us as well as for the other remaining brands as i think EVGA has helped push the other brands in that area. Especially with the support of also matching hardware with K|ngP|n as the resident OCer showing what can be done and with very good OC guides overall.

It is not good ?

EVGA are always top quality cards that you can rely on.

 

Edited September 17, 20222 yr by spit051261

their RMA and step up program are/were good, though had a RTX 3070 and a 3090 die on me in a matter of months... and both were used for gaming, thus not for overclocking... Not sure how they will survive on PSUs and gaming peripherals...

Kinpin cards are what I'll miss. 

As you said , their customer service is the best. 

 

You all are looking at the small picture and not the real big screen.

Nvidia has been cornering the Vga market for years now,

Nvidia has treated all AIB partners as trash.

Nvidia believes that they can be simultaneously : manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers ( competing AIB who are their wholesale customers ).

My take ?

Nvidia is looking to take over longterm the retail market themselves moving AIB partners out.

It is a common scenario that I have seen multiple times with much bigger companies, especially when margins drop.

That is the big screen gentlemen.

UNFORTUNATELY

Edited September 17, 20222 yr by Fasttrack

Maybe right George. 

Wonder what the rest will do now .

Edited September 17, 20222 yr by spit051261

7 minutes ago, spit051261 said:

Maybe right George. 

Wonder what the rest will do now .

Remains to be seen Paul.

What I have to add as a general remark from my 30 years of deep experience in the financial sector.

1) When cows are fat and markets run ( demand a lot higher than offer ), you maximize profits.

2) When markets shrink ( demand drops a lot below offer ), those that have the power gain market share waiting for the next up cycle.

Nvidia being a bunch of greedy motherfuckers and harassing AIBs with with increasingly ridiculous terms? Say it ain't so /s

Of course EVGA leaving the market is a MASSIVE loss. No more Kingpins too

Wonder what Vince/KP himself is going to do next? Move to another AIB? Join AMD or Intel?

Edited September 17, 20222 yr by Wasmachineman_NL

On 9/17/2022 at 10:57 AM, spit051261 said:

 

Hopefully evga come back on their steps, hard to imagine a 4090 without KPE

https://www.facebook.com/vince.lucido/

Vince seems to be history @ EVGA already.

EVGA Z690 Dark may be grabbed for 499$ ATM at EVGA Shop, which is a ridiculous low price considering what it used to cost.

Run fast and grab one, very likely the last Kingpin motherboard you will be able to buy for a long period of time.

 

Edited September 18, 20222 yr by ironage

Vince will be OK ?

Hope so for him, but which vendor will he work for ? no more Kinpin GPUs and mobos from EVGA is a PITA.

 

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I'm thankful for all the industry friends, old colleagues, etc. that reached out. It means a lot and I appreciate it.

The news isn't received well ofc, and I'm mostly sorry for the fans and people that are passionate for our brand and everything that we have done here over the years at EVGA. If the KP hardware is meant to continue on in one way or another, I'm sure that it will :).

The EVGA and PC hardware enthusiast community have been great to me and my teams here over the years, THANK YOU.

Vince „K|NGP|N“ Lucido

 

 

Edited September 22, 20222 yr by ironage

On 9/18/2022 at 5:00 PM, ironage said:

Run fast and grab one, very likely the last Kingpin motherboard you will be able to buy for a long period of time.

https://www.evga.com/articles/01590/Introducing-the-EVGA-Z790/

Glad i have been proven wrong.