My 3080Ti died about 3 months after having it. I just took out a Nazi around 400m in Sniper Elite 5 and my computer turned off. The system wouldn't boot with the GPU installed. Tried it with another PSU and in another system and with the card installed the systems wouldn't power. EVGA had a replacement 3080Ti out to me 6 days later - this is the time it took for me to send my card in, them to receive it and send out a replacement.
I'm not sure if it was bad luck or a similar issue some of the 3090s had.
Replacement card has been going strong for about 2 years now. Hopefully this one keeps going.
Otherwise any other EVGA GPU I've owned over the years has had zero issues - going from the 8800 GTS 640MB and 512MB cards, GTX 570 and my current 3080Ti (not the original one, you know, because it died on me).
Sorry if it seemed like I suggested that all of their 3080ti's were perfect. I wouldn't make that claim about anybody's products lol. There's fallout on most products, especially high-volume ones of any complexity. That definitely sounds like something in the card shorted out and caused the PSU(s) to go into protection mode. Glad they sorted it out for you. I was just trying to provide some background information on what was a real problem on their 3090's and how their 3080ti's had a much more robust design.
I have had several of their products over the years and had 2 RMAs...one for a 680i motherboard that was frying memory modules (replaced no problem) and an 8800GTX GPU that we couldn't diagnose erratic behavior from that turned out to be Windows Vista needing more memory lol, but they still replaced the card for me no problem when they couldn't explain it as a separate issue (I figured out the memory issue using a weaker backup card while waiting for the RMA). I always had good support from them, even before I got involved in any affiliate stuff (never had issues after that). Not a bad result considering I've had 2x 8800GTX's, a GTX285, GTX470, GTX680, GTX1080FTW2, RTX2080Super, RTX 3080ti, 680i, 780i, x58, x99, z590, z690, Supernova G1 1000W, Supernova G3 1000W
Being a long time member of their forums though, I know a lot of people had a variety of luck and I've heard horror stories from people dealing with all AIBs, including EVGA (I've heard more there than anywhere, but that's because I am a regular on their forums and the other companies either don't have forums or they have bad forums lol).
As another forum participant mentioned, this was not an on-camera face-to-face interview between Steve Burke and Andrew Han. The interview happened offline and Steve just rehashed what was covered in the conversation.
None of this is new. It wasn't new when OP started this thread in December 2023 either.
This was a huge fumble from EVGA, but it was intentional from Han. They didn't actually make a clear announcement to the public. He appreciated the relationship he had with Jay, Steve, (and a third I can't remember of the top of my head) and he invited them for a private conversation, letting them announce their version of events on their own channels. The problem that created is that all we really have is the re-telling of a private conversation from 3 people who are not Andrew Han. All we got "officially" was
this forum post.
Then you had all the key staff leaving...support staff posting things like "we're still here!" and that Kingpin hasn't left (he clearly did lol). So it looks like the original statements from GN are holding true...Han didn't want to retire immediately, but wanted to reduce stress and spend more time with family. The low margins on GPUs and increased problems in the business relationship with Nvidia caused him to pick that moment to cancel their 40-series plans and start the wind-down. Staff were let go (with little to no warning before the GN/J2C/etc. videos went out), other staff left, the web-store was closed with all product sales going through distribution partners, they stopped offering new products, they ended all their special programs that helped grow their reputation and customer-base in the first place (ELITE program, BUCKs program, Step-up program, Affiliate program, extended warranties, etc.). The one set of power supplies they already had in development launched with 3-year warranties...it's clear that this is a slow wind-down, and my guess is that they know they won't be able to sell the products they already had manufacturing contracts/commitments for if people know the company is definitely going away, so they're just trying to quietly float by with their limited support and what staff they have left while all the warranty windows come to an end.
This is why threads like this still have people arguing about whether or not they'll come back. They didn't just come out and say "we're winding down". There was another GN video (a HW-news one) that came out well after the one above where they had enough people message them for an update that they just said (paraphrasing): "there is no update...they're winding down". They also had the video from one of the conferences where they interviewed Kingpin and the motherboard BIOS team about what they did and how they have to find new jobs.
At the same time, as noted above (my bold underline added),
