EVGA Closes Official Discussion Forum, Advises Membership Transfer to Reddit

[Fouquin]

There is an epoch of incredibly useful information regarding every bit of minutia on EVGA's products within that forum, as well as BIOS files, drivers, unofficial tweaks, utilities, modding guides, overclocking guides, how-tos, and dos/donts for enthusiasts. Losing that forum is going to be an incredibly big hole in knowledge for anyone in the future that ever lays their hands on a legacy EVGA product.

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

But the leather jacket followers will say it's all EVGA's fault, even though it's obvious Nvidia has been screwing the AIB's since the RTX 20 series.
Many OEM's have gotten burned and learned their lesson with Nvidia, Mediatek must be getting a really good deal with their partnership.

And Lisa su apologists will throw all the blame on Nvidia, despite demonstrably stupid business decisions by EVGA, or parts of the CEO's story making absolutely no sense, or his absolute refusal to make Intel or AMD cards instead, or get into more mainstream motherboards, ece.

But you know, we know the truth. The guy wanted to retire but didnt want to let go of the baby he built, nor take an advisory role, so instead he came up with a crooked plan that resulted in his baby getting strangled in front of him. A truly Shakespearian comedy.

I am sure someone will still pipe in with a “EVGA isn’t REALLY dead yet, guys, they might still make it” take.

Is there really anyone who thinks EVGA is coming back or even really doing business anymore?

 

[eidairaman1]

Oh I agree. It's always been a matter of when not if with what they've been doing.

I was never a fan of their GPUs, but it seems the screws were put to them.

 

[R-T-B]

Hmmm that where they post the driver and BIOS... So effectively everyone with a EVGA product is screwed once it goes offline.

Don't they also list on their standard support page?

Mind you, I would not really expect updates...

 

[freeagent]

Is there really anyone who thinks EVGA is coming back or even really doing business anymore?

Stick a fork in it I think..

They are done.

For the ones that loved, all that are left are memories, for the ones that hated.. well I guess they got their wish lol

 

[R-T-B]

There is an epoch of incredibly useful information regarding every bit of minutia on EVGA's products within that forum, as well as BIOS files, drivers, unofficial tweaks, utilities, modding guides, overclocking guides, how-tos, and dos/donts for enthusiasts. Losing that forum is going to be an incredibly big hole in knowledge for anyone in the future that ever lays their hands on a legacy EVGA product.

Internet Archive time!

 

[Hecate91]

My last ngreedia gpu was a evga 970 and its still working. Well, i assume if i place it in a system it will work and was moderately priced.

I had an EVGA 3070Ti, I would've kept it if the card had more than 8GB vram, though I wish I had kept it anyway. EVGA cards had the best build quality, their customer support was great, and their cards weren't overpriced.

And Lisa su apologists will throw all the blame on Nvidia, despite demonstrably stupid business decisions by EVGA, or parts of the CEO's story making absolutely no sense, or his absolute refusal to make Intel or AMD cards instead, or get into more mainstream motherboards, ece.

But you know, we know the truth. The guy wanted to retire but didnt want to let go of the baby he built, nor take an advisory role, so instead he came up with a crooked plan that resulted in his baby getting strangled in front of him. A truly Shakespearian comedy.

I would recommend watching GN's coverage of EVGA dropping out of the GPU business, the only thing the CEO could be blamed for is not selling the company. But it's understandable that he didn't want EVGA to just become just another GPU board partner with little concern for customer support or build quality.

 

[ir_cow]

Don't they also list on their standard support page?

Mind you, I would not really expect updates...

The Nu Sound card drivers / software was only in the forums.

 

[R-T-B]

The eBay Sound card drivers / software was only in the forums.

Ouch.

 

[chrcoluk]

Hmmm that where they post the driver and BIOS... So effectively everyone with a EVGA product is screwed once it goes offline.

Companies need to learn to just lock read only instead of making resources just go *poof*.

 

[Bwaze]

It is hardly the only company that has “gone beyond” such outdated means of customer help as forums.

Gigabyte, after several leaks of all user data, simply deleted their official forum in 2022. But even before deletion there were no official representatives on it. There is still a UK Gigabyte forum, bit it’s mostly dead.

I think forums have just become an embarrassment of tech companies. It’s the one place that you can show as “there are issues with your product” by pointing out dozens upon dozens of threads of people seeking help. Official forums were places where it could be confirmed that the product has serial flaw - when it was flooded with people with same experience.

Tech companies don’t like that. They want their reputation squeaky clean, and they want deniability - if the users have problems, but aren’t able to gather and share their experiences, they will be convinced their problems are one off, bad luck, or even user error.

 

[_roman_]

I'm going to download all the drivers I need for their hardware that I own tonight.

That's the issue - windows only hardware. I had several hardware which was only windows vista capeable.

Hardware should work without crapware. Asusmainboard without asus armory crate. coolermaster keyboard without software. AOC AGON mouse without "the I can not find the software - software for windows"

Who will fix those security issues with "legacy" EVGA hardware?

 

[A&P211]

Wait until you start getting permanently banned from subs if you dare saying something that’s different of what the hive mind wrote.

Or the false reports from others being concerned about you because you are at risk of committing suicide.

I usually make about 1 reddit account per year. I would get banned from saying anything, enough bans from any sub-reddit, and your account is completely banned. Reddit is non thing but complete trash.

 

[SOAREVERSOR]

I was never a fan of their GPUs, but it seems the screws were put to them.

That's not what happened.

The biggest issue is that the cost of developing and making a GPU has gone up exponentially over the years. It's vastly more expensive than it used to be. Also the complexity, amount of components, and cost of making the boards has gone up exponentially as well. Progress = astronomical cost and price increases. That killed profit margins. Not only that but EVGAs actual quality customer service and actual warranty meant they couldn't make money. They'd have to screw their consumers over.

There was no money in it and no point in it. You have to be an ASUS, MSI, or GIGABYTE and charge a lot more per GPU and have shit customer service and sell at those volumes to make it work now.

Rising complexity due to progress inherently destroys industries. Progress causes complexity which will always end up in vastly more expensive products for the consumer and kill off most competitors in a market place. If you demand progress you are demanding to pay crazy amounts more for the products and demanding a monopoly. Gamers wanted progress. Which means gamers want to pay shit tons more money for products and be trapped in a monopoly. They got exactly what they asked for!

 

[shoman24v]

They just sent me thermal pads for my 3080Ti

 

[Veseleil]

I guess moderation doesn't come free...

It does if you have a community to back you up. They've could transition to one of those, but no, let's just erase all of the community effort in one move. I used to visit their forum while searching for some info, and I don't own a single product of theirs.
There's nothing more insulting to the internet savy people, than to see a certain forum or website of value is gone offline just because it was expensive to keep it up, even just as a legacy. Johnny Guru I'm looking at you. There's more to it than just a maintenance costs. Losing (straightforward) access to a certain info could be planned. Luckily there's internet archive still around.

 

[80-watt Hamster]

It does if you have a community to back you up. They've could transition to one of those, but no, let's just erase all of the community effort in one move. I used to visit their forum while searching for some info, and I don't own a single product of theirs.
There's nothing more insulting to the internet savy people, than to see a certain forum or website of value is gone offline just because it was expensive to keep it up, even just as a legacy. Johnny Guru I'm looking at you. There's more to it than just a maintenance costs. Losing (straightforward) access to a certain info could be planned. Luckily there's internet archive still around.

The article doesn't source a press release or official statement, but the header message on the forums (quoted in the article) says that the forums are now read-only, not offline, nor stated as planned to go offline as of now. This could naturally change, but let's not get our knickers in a twist about something that hasn't happened yet.

 

[SmookinJoe]

Not up for debate, I have no idea what the future brings..
If you need service EVGA site has access to drivers and registering your products.
https://www.evga.com/support/download/
Hi everybody

 

[Bobaganoosh]

Hey Joe. Hope you like it here. Some good folks around.

 

[SmookinJoe]

Hey Joe. Hope you like it here. Some good folks around.

Thank You Bobaganoosh
That sounds encouraging. I definitely like the look and feel so far.
I have been mentioning Techpowerup at Reddit...allot of shocked people....never know where they will go.
I put one 2 of my machines on your Team earlier today.

PS...I am on a post approval delay

 

[Caring1]

Reddit

 

[SmookinJoe]

Reddit

Tell me about it!
You reading my mind?
You missed one

 

[chrcoluk]

Wait until you start getting permanently banned from subs if you dare saying something that’s different of what the hive mind wrote.

Or the false reports from others being concerned about you because you are at risk of committing suicide.

Reddit is frustrating, there is useful stuff on there (most of it from years ago archived), but it has some of the worst moderation I have ever seen, can tell many mods are power hungry. The downvoting thing needed to be gone like years ago but is still there, so it just creates massive hive's as you said, aka echo chambers.
I got my first and only perma ban about 4 months ago, no previous warnings or anything, and also for nothing in the rules, I had apparently upset a member, and that was enough to be gone, sort of thing, I later read that these perma bans which are not vetted by reddit staff can lead to an reddit wide ban under specific circumstances, most of these problems is because reddit is designed to be community moderated.
I also rarely make new posts on reddit, and stick to comment on existing ones, as I have a very high % of posts that get deleted for usually very vague reasons that are not consistently applied on the sub.
So yeah a gigabyte/evga or nvidia/AMD community on reddit would never duplicate an existing official forum. The amount of censorship alone kills the idea.

 

[SmookinJoe]

Reddit is frustrating, there is useful stuff on there (most of it from years ago archived), but it has some of the worst moderation I have ever seen, can tell many mods are power hungry. The downvoting thing needed to be gone like years ago but is still there, so it just creates massive hive's as you said, aka echo chambers.
I got my first and only perma ban about 4 months ago, no previous warnings or anything, and also for nothing in the rules, I had apparently upset a member, and that was enough to be gone, sort of thing, I later read that these perma bans which are not vetted by reddit staff can lead to an reddit wide ban under specific circumstances, most of these problems is because reddit is designed to be community moderated.
I also rarely make new posts on reddit, and stick to comment on existing ones, as I have a very high % of posts that get deleted for usually very vague reasons that are not consistently applied on the sub.
So yeah a gigabyte/evga or nvidia/AMD community on reddit would never duplicate an existing official forum. The amount of censorship alone kills the idea.

There so many things wrong with how you use Reddit.
Far too many for us to waste our time on to try and list them all...lol
If you find something from a google search it can be very handy because you don't have to post. Just read and use the info.
If you actually try and comment...OH BOY...now you have done it!
The problems are just beginning ..
So you are signed in... You craft a really well edited work of art...post it only to find out it just disappeared for some reason??
Why?...just walk away...no draft nothing saved and no idea what happened.
The main problem for, most of, the poor souls from Team EVGA, is they have to keep scrolling through the multiple replys to see new ones..Ones you never got alerts for.
I just tried to use it to redirect the, lost souls of, wonderful people.
I definitely hear you!

 

[Neo_Morpheus]

I usually make about 1 reddit account per year. I would get banned from saying anything, enough bans from any sub-reddit, and your account is completely banned. Reddit is non thing but complete trash.

I was banned from /Linux because i called Linus from LTT fake Linus, just one example of how stupid the bans are.

Mind you, I have seen way worse comments in that sub alone, without consequences.