The end of EVGA?
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I've always liked the design and looks of their motherboards but I never did use one in a build. So I didn't help them any there! 
Never had a GPU from them either, I don't think, unless way back my 780 was from them (?), but I am still running my EVGA power supply at it has been excellent and rock solid through several builds.
Maybe it isn't the end for them and it's being overstated as @Bond007 posted? Always nice to have more players in the market for competition.
That's and interesting idea @Soultribunal , but is anyone buying Intel GPUs? Is there a chance if they'd gone that way they would have been backing a dead horse or are the Intel GPUs still likely to be viable enough in the market that it would give EVGA a boost?
Never had a GPU from them either, I don't think, unless way back my 780 was from them (?), but I am still running my EVGA power supply at it has been excellent and rock solid through several builds.Maybe it isn't the end for them and it's being overstated as @Bond007 posted? Always nice to have more players in the market for competition.
That's and interesting idea @Soultribunal , but is anyone buying Intel GPUs? Is there a chance if they'd gone that way they would have been backing a dead horse or are the Intel GPUs still likely to be viable enough in the market that it would give EVGA a boost?
Absolutely that could have been a good opportunity...if they foresee intel GPUs being more profitable and long running. I would guess that intel GPUs are a bit of a wild card right now with volume and future being less than known factors. Swapping to AMD GPUs would have been an easy and valid option (that I would expect they looked into), but decided against for one reason or another.
I think they have enough diversity that they can make this transition, but OMG do they need to clean up the power supply options. So many excellent options buried in a sea of mediocre choices at the same price point. No company needs that many PSU models.
I've always liked the design and looks of their motherboards but I never did use one in a build. So I didn't help them any there!
Maybe it isn't the end for them and it's being overstated as @Bond007 posted? Always nice to have more players in the market for competition.
That's and interesting idea @Soultribunal , but is anyone buying Intel GPUs? Is there a chance if they'd gone that way they would have been backing a dead horse or are the Intel GPUs still likely to be viable enough in the market that it would give EVGA a boost?
If I had my all seeing orb I could at least guess at it.
Intel is at least trying, if they succeed is another matter. But it would have been good to have a really good and well recognized AIB on board for these opening years of getting established.
It might have caused people to look more closely at their hardware offerings.
Intel has already improved their drivers significantly and their next gen should be much better. They aren't going for the Halo cards, they are going for the volume ones. They might pull it off if their lucky.
Look at what happened to Intel and AMD. Intel got stuck on their 14++++++++++++++++++++++++++ for a million years and AMD came up and took a huge step forward with CPU's.
The same can be said for the GPU side. AMD and nVidia are trading blows but Intel will probably be ignored by them till they suddenly have a card that's 90% of the top tier but costs half as much.
It would have been nice for EVGA to have been on that. I just hate to see good companies waste away. A lot of my cards were from them and PNY.
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BFG and a couple more have died over the years in part because of how Nvidia deals with it's partners.
"On May 18, 2010, John Slevin the chairman of BFG Technologies, announced that they would no longer be developing graphics cards, as it was not profitable for them."
Basically what EVGA said too. High GROSS profit but crap NET profit from dealing with NVidia.
BFG Technologies - Wikipedia
BFG Tech Announces Exit From Graphics Card Category, Continues On With PSUs and PCs
BFG Technologies today announced their exit from the graphics card category. The company will continue to sell their line of BFG Tech power supplies as well as their Deimos gaming notebooks and Phobos gaming systems. "After eight years of providing innovative, high-quality graphics cards to the...
Oh no…this makes it sound pretty bad. 18m20sec for the start of evga discussion
The writing was on the wall when then owner gave up on Nvidia. Very sad indeed. The new BFG.
I am sad for all of the souls who made the company what we remember.
I am sad for all of the souls who made the company what we remember.
They were "done" once announcement of no more GPU's .....anyone thinking they will survive with their "ok" line of psu's and mediocre motherboards is/was dreaming.....even the KP line up was destined to fail as trying to "brand" components designed for LN2 cooling was not going to cut it mainstream, although their was always the loyal KP gang!
The only thing Evga in my latest builds was GPU's......although after the last "3080 Red Light of Death" debaucle I had already decided to move to Asus.......like my Mobo's......
The only thing Evga in my latest builds was GPU's......although after the last "3080 Red Light of Death" debaucle I had already decided to move to Asus.......like my Mobo's......
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