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Uhh, what does EVGA carry besides graphics cards? Are they going to carry AMD cards now or just going to downsize and survive on other minor component sales?

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The latter. They have no plans of building video cards, period.

My guess? They got so stressed out dealing with the chip shortage that they're all burned-out internally.

They're being undercut by Nvidia as Nvidia rushes to clear their remaining 30-series stock. EVGA claims to be losing money on every 3080-and-higher card, and they can't compete with Nvidia's margins.

Motherboards, power supplies, a bunch of stuff. All visible on their website :)

I bought a ludicrously cheap 1200w power supply from them once. No house fires yet!

The last I checked, EVGA's PSUs have a very good reputation

Yes, but EVGA does not exactly make PSU's, they are all rebranded OEM's like Super Flower, FSP, etc.

That works for me, if there is competent quality control.

Well they only rebrand Seasonic and Super Flower so they should be very good products. I currently run a G6 1000w unit (rebadged seasonic) and hope to use it for the rest of this decade or more.

The only PSU I've ever actually had fail on me was from EVGA, but their customer service was incredible as usual and replaced it quickly with no fuss.

I'm willing to chalk that up to just bad luck on my part, because they certainly don't have a reputation for selling bad PSUs, unlike Gigabyte.

… I've been wanting one of their PSUs for a while now, but every time I try to buy it, the site is down. (And the "buy" site appears to be separate from the "marketing" site, so I can see the page with the PSU, the "it's on sale!". It's just the actual "shut up and take my money" part that apparently doesn't function.)

So IDK, maybe their PSU dept. is doing great.

Their PSUs are actually quite decent quality and are usually good value for the money. Not a big fan of their motherboards though (hardware is largely fine but the BIOS can be rather flaky).

They were always a PSU company to me, and that is arguably more important than the GPU. One can cause significant damage and house fires.

I mean, from the beginning their name was styled "eVGA" and they sold VGA cards.

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