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What a bummer. My plan for this fall was to go all in on a new high-end machine with all EVGA parts once the 4090 and 13900 are available Now I'll have to spen

by fooey 4y ago

What a bummer. My plan for this fall was to go all in on a new high-end machine with all EVGA parts once the 4090 and 13900 are available Now I'll have to spend a ton of time trying to figure out what other brands to deal with instead. Makes me think I'll be better off with a pre-built instead of buying components this cycle

ask_b123 4y ago
I'm in the same situation; I had withheld from purchasing a GPU during the pandemic and had decided to buy an EVGA 4000 GPU when they came out, because I've only heard good things from them. Was going to be my 1st cycle in which I'd build it too.
babypuncher 4y ago
You will still be able to buy EVGA motherboards and PSUs, they aren't quitting the PC component space altogether. I think ASUS is probably the next best option if you still want to stick with Nvidia.
- geraldwhen 4y ago
  Hard pass. I owned a few hundred GPUs over the past couple of years and asus reliability and customer service are only second worst from nvidia itself. I actually had much better success rates with gigabyte cards this gen than asus. For nvidia rmas, I would often have to fight with someone in India that would demand I try the GPU in two separate full PC builds. I had the ability to do that, of course, but what normal person could satisfy that RMA request? I received more than a few asus rma cards that had severe damage. Ports didn’t line up, pins were bent, and in a couple cases there was just tape all over the card and it wouldn’t post. Tape. All over the card.
noir_lord 4y ago
Same boat, I sat out the 30XX madness on an RTX 2080 (ironically an EVGA) and fully intended to just buy whatever EVGA had in the 4080ish range - I've used EVGA cards forever, I'm genuinely sad they are going away because their customer support was/is amazing and on an 800 quid part that is reassuring. Now I have to figure out who is the next best supplier, gonna guess Asus but will have to figure it out. Might even bin nvidia entirely and look at the AMD options for next build.

by fooey 4y ago

ask_b123 4y ago

I'm in the same situation; I had withheld from purchasing a GPU during the pandemic and had decided to buy an EVGA 4000 GPU when they came out, because I've only heard good things from them. Was going to be my 1st cycle in which I'd build it too.

babypuncher 4y ago

You will still be able to buy EVGA motherboards and PSUs, they aren't quitting the PC component space altogether. I think ASUS is probably the next best option if you still want to stick with Nvidia.

geraldwhen 4y ago
Hard pass. I owned a few hundred GPUs over the past couple of years and asus reliability and customer service are only second worst from nvidia itself. I actually had much better success rates with gigabyte cards this gen than asus. For nvidia rmas, I would often have to fight with someone in India that would demand I try the GPU in two separate full PC builds. I had the ability to do that, of course, but what normal person could satisfy that RMA request? I received more than a few asus rma cards that had severe damage. Ports didn’t line up, pins were bent, and in a couple cases there was just tape all over the card and it wouldn’t post. Tape. All over the card.

noir_lord 4y ago

Same boat, I sat out the 30XX madness on an RTX 2080 (ironically an EVGA) and fully intended to just buy whatever EVGA had in the 4080ish range - I've used EVGA cards forever, I'm genuinely sad they are going away because their customer support was/is amazing and on an 800 quid part that is reassuring. Now I have to figure out who is the next best supplier, gonna guess Asus but will have to figure it out. Might even bin nvidia entirely and look at the AMD options for next build.