EVGA's Final GPU Secrets: Engineering Lab Tour ft. KINGPIN
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Date: 2022-12-14
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Luscious3174
I feel so very fortunate that I grabbed my four EVGA 3080Ti HydroCopper cards back at the exact moment prices began to fall earlier this year (thanks Jacob ). And these four were replacing four 980Ti HydroCopper cards that I had been using since 2015. I'm probably the only guy in LA running four water-cooled 3080Ti GPU's and that's a testament as well to EVGA for making possible such over-the-top builds out of the box. Yeah, I enjoy gaming but F H has been a passion of mine explaining why I have the four cards in there. I will say though 4-way-SLI with the 980Ti's was a blast to use in games that supported it. EVGA's exit from the GPU market will be a huge loss - they were maybe one of only two vendors doing factory water-blocked cards. That's a big deal when you don't want to void your warranty and mess with modding the card for a block, never mind the time saved when it involves doing four of them. These last 10 years really have been the golden age of the PC enthusiast. I was sad when Fry's and CaseLabs disappeared, and sad now too that EVGA is going out of the GPU business.
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I feel so very fortunate that I grabbed my four EVGA 3080Ti HydroCopper cards back at the exact moment prices began to fall earlier this year (thanks Jacob ). And these four were replacing four 980Ti HydroCopper cards that I had been using since 2015. I'm probably the only guy in LA running four water-cooled 3080Ti GPU's and that's a testament as well to EVGA for making possible such over-the-top builds out of the box. Yeah, I enjoy gaming but F H has been a passion of mine explaining why I have the four cards in there. I will say though 4-way-SLI with the 980Ti's was a blast to use in games that supported it. EVGA's exit from the GPU market will be a huge loss - they were maybe one of only two vendors doing factory water-blocked cards. That's a big deal when you don't want to void your warranty and mess with modding the card for a block, never mind the time saved when it involves doing four of them. These last 10 years really have been the golden age of the PC enthusiast. I was sad when Fry's and CaseLabs disappeared, and sad now too that EVGA is going out of the GPU business.
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Deltarious
Someone else said it already in a reply but I just wanted to add my own top level about it: EVGA might not be out of business officially, but it is de facto dead considering it's GPUs were what made it 'special'. It's boards are decent, the high end ones very good, even, but it's not like they don't have significant competition in all their remaining business segments, whereas for high quality GPUs with decent support they kinda had their own little niche for NVIDIA GPUs where if you wanted to pay a little more for something slightly higher end than founders you'd get a little more performance, but mainly a really great quality card for the money from a board partner who, broadly, seemed to care about it's customers at least to some degree.
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Someone else said it already in a reply but I just wanted to add my own top level about it: EVGA might not be out of business officially, but it is de facto dead considering it's GPUs were what made it 'special'. It's boards are decent, the high end ones very good, even, but it's not like they don't have significant competition in all their remaining business segments, whereas for high quality GPUs with decent support they kinda had their own little niche for NVIDIA GPUs where if you wanted to pay a little more for something slightly higher end than founders you'd get a little more performance, but mainly a really great quality card for the money from a board partner who, broadly, seemed to care about it's customers at least to some degree.
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ozzuneoj
I don't want to contradict someone who knows infinitely more about this stuff than I do, but the Geforce 7950 GX2 was a dual-GPU card (sandwich) which could be used in pairs for Quad SLI back in 2006. So, the GTX 295 was not the first Quad SLI capable GPU. Maybe EVGA was the first to do it with the 7950 GX2 (I had one, and it was an EVGA), but it started several years before the GTX 295.
It was not a good device though in comparison to the 7900 GTX that came out earlier in 2006, and it was absolutely awful in comparison to the 8800GTX that came out by the end of the same year... so it's not surprising that people have forgotten about it, but it did exist and it's easy to find Quad-SLI benchmarks of it.
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I don't want to contradict someone who knows infinitely more about this stuff than I do, but the Geforce 7950 GX2 was a dual-GPU card (sandwich) which could be used in pairs for Quad SLI back in 2006. So, the GTX 295 was not the first Quad SLI capable GPU. Maybe EVGA was the first to do it with the 7950 GX2 (I had one, and it was an EVGA), but it started several years before the GTX 295.
It was not a good device though in comparison to the 7900 GTX that came out earlier in 2006, and it was absolutely awful in comparison to the 8800GTX that came out by the end of the same year... so it's not surprising that people have forgotten about it, but it did exist and it's easy to find Quad-SLI benchmarks of it.
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Denver
evga was the premium brand to get when going nivida, almost every other company cut corners on their boards , cooling and OC head room just so save a few cent's on the dollar
the only brand that comes close to their build quality is zotac. but having owned both zotac and evga cards now , i'd have to say EVGA was just better over all , maybe not by much but still sad to see them drop out , now Zotac is the only brand that doesn't cut corners left and right. asus , gigabyte , pny , they all do shit liek run with no pads on vram , or use cheaper paste . i just don't trust those brands like i trust evga and zotac, not even with a 2000 dollar video card. a card taht buy it's anture shoudl be premium already.
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evga was the premium brand to get when going nivida, almost every other company cut corners on their boards , cooling and OC head room just so save a few cent's on the dollar
the only brand that comes close to their build quality is zotac. but having owned both zotac and evga cards now , i'd have to say EVGA was just better over all , maybe not by much but still sad to see them drop out , now Zotac is the only brand that doesn't cut corners left and right. asus , gigabyte , pny , they all do shit liek run with no pads on vram , or use cheaper paste . i just don't trust those brands like i trust evga and zotac, not even with a 2000 dollar video card. a card taht buy it's anture shoudl be premium already.
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Zodwraith
Feels equal parts expose and postmortem you could really feel at the ending. Like a VH1 Behind the GPU.
My last 5 GPUs were EVGA and it really sucks that Nvidia has become such a difficult company to do business with that it's preferable to cut ties all together. My loyalty was to EVGA long before Nvidia and I'm probably going team red or blue next just to spite Nvidia and their anti-consumer practices.
Thanks for the fun Vince. With your track record I'm sure you'll continue standing tall with or without the backing of an AIB for your science projects. Reminds you that corporate decisions and practices have real world effects on real people, not just your hobby.
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Feels equal parts expose and postmortem you could really feel at the ending. Like a VH1 Behind the GPU.
My last 5 GPUs were EVGA and it really sucks that Nvidia has become such a difficult company to do business with that it's preferable to cut ties all together. My loyalty was to EVGA long before Nvidia and I'm probably going team red or blue next just to spite Nvidia and their anti-consumer practices.
Thanks for the fun Vince. With your track record I'm sure you'll continue standing tall with or without the backing of an AIB for your science projects. Reminds you that corporate decisions and practices have real world effects on real people, not just your hobby.
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kindnuguz
I'm still very upset , disappointed, grieving etc.. about EVGA, I was a loyal fan since around 2000, I even have a TNT64 card of theirs that was my first card , I have 4x 260, 2x 480, 2x 580, 2x 780Ti, 980Ti, 1080Ti, 3080Ti all EVGA sitting in my closet. I did have a Geforce 2 Ultra and Geforce 3 and Geforce 4 of theirs.
Still using the x299 Dark but mainly for desktop stuff.
I will still be a die hard EVGA fan but they pioneered the GPU's for me and I hope new management will at least go with AMD. I'm not a chip snob and I believe in EVGA and what they do. If they went with AMD 7000 , I would buy them because I believe in what they do.
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I'm still very upset , disappointed, grieving etc.. about EVGA, I was a loyal fan since around 2000, I even have a TNT64 card of theirs that was my first card , I have 4x 260, 2x 480, 2x 580, 2x 780Ti, 980Ti, 1080Ti, 3080Ti all EVGA sitting in my closet. I did have a Geforce 2 Ultra and Geforce 3 and Geforce 4 of theirs.
Still using the x299 Dark but mainly for desktop stuff.
I will still be a die hard EVGA fan but they pioneered the GPU's for me and I hope new management will at least go with AMD. I'm not a chip snob and I believe in EVGA and what they do. If they went with AMD 7000 , I would buy them because I believe in what they do.
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Andy96
Subjecting IPA to ultrasonic sound is a fire hazard? To my knowledge in our lab we sonicate all kinds of solvents, IPA, THF, acetone, diethyl ether even, never caught fire. Why would it? Even when I partly dip a beaker into a water sonic bath, the beaker never actually gets warm but all the vibrations heat my fingers that I use to hold the beaker up to 70C at most as far as I can feel. To set a solvent on fire you'd have to reach its autoignition temperature, which even for diethyl ether is as high as 160C.
Would filling the tank with organic solvents create a different scenario than sonicating the solvents while they're in some glassware?
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Subjecting IPA to ultrasonic sound is a fire hazard? To my knowledge in our lab we sonicate all kinds of solvents, IPA, THF, acetone, diethyl ether even, never caught fire. Why would it? Even when I partly dip a beaker into a water sonic bath, the beaker never actually gets warm but all the vibrations heat my fingers that I use to hold the beaker up to 70C at most as far as I can feel. To set a solvent on fire you'd have to reach its autoignition temperature, which even for diethyl ether is as high as 160C.
Would filling the tank with organic solvents create a different scenario than sonicating the solvents while they're in some glassware?
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Nakatomi
Good job Linus isn't there he'd drop something ha
I also don't understand why the put the power slot at the top when it could be at the back getting air from your front fans ???
Really wish EVGA would do some AMD cards i really do but.... It seems AMD have done an Nvidia with those 7000 cards the naming against the price on some reviews say good and bad things.
But I'd love to see a classified KingPiN AMD card
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Good job Linus isn't there he'd drop something ha
I also don't understand why the put the power slot at the top when it could be at the back getting air from your front fans ???
Really wish EVGA would do some AMD cards i really do but.... It seems AMD have done an Nvidia with those 7000 cards the naming against the price on some reviews say good and bad things.
But I'd love to see a classified KingPiN AMD card
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Wh0_Am_
I have own more EVGA GPUs than any other board partner, their cards are the only ones which have not given me grief the oldest of which being a GTX 760 which is still actively used for blender renders for less urgent projects. It is sad to see EVGA leave the GPU market, time and time again I keep hoping that they go to AMD or Intel to keep their legacy alive, and hopefully produce some killer new cards.
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I have own more EVGA GPUs than any other board partner, their cards are the only ones which have not given me grief the oldest of which being a GTX 760 which is still actively used for blender renders for less urgent projects. It is sad to see EVGA leave the GPU market, time and time again I keep hoping that they go to AMD or Intel to keep their legacy alive, and hopefully produce some killer new cards.
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TheTardis157
I miss when EVGA was a serious maker of motherboards. They hands down made some of the best enthusiast boards on the market and I hope that they can start to get back into it and doing more seriously since they sunsetted their graphics department. I still have an old P55 Classified 200 and that thing was the best. It's a shame it only makes up 2% of their gross income.
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I miss when EVGA was a serious maker of motherboards. They hands down made some of the best enthusiast boards on the market and I hope that they can start to get back into it and doing more seriously since they sunsetted their graphics department. I still have an old P55 Classified 200 and that thing was the best. It's a shame it only makes up 2% of their gross income.
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gamecubegll
It is kinda hard to believe that such enthusiasts sit there and designed such cool things and now it all seems to go away after the end of the NVIDIA-Partnership. Its so freaking cool you could put it all up in a tech museum. Thanks a lot for showing this historic rundown of all this cool stuff. You see the passion Kingpin and Tin had/have for the job they did.
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It is kinda hard to believe that such enthusiasts sit there and designed such cool things and now it all seems to go away after the end of the NVIDIA-Partnership. Its so freaking cool you could put it all up in a tech museum. Thanks a lot for showing this historic rundown of all this cool stuff. You see the passion Kingpin and Tin had/have for the job they did.
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hazonku
Boy that was a little bittersweet seeing Vince & the lab one last time. TiN & Kingpin were the absolute dream team of mad scientists. Never afraid to hack together some crazy out of the box idea just to see if it COULD be done. I really hope wherever Vince's next chapter lands him he's able to keep pushing the envelope the same way he did for EVGA.
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Boy that was a little bittersweet seeing Vince & the lab one last time. TiN & Kingpin were the absolute dream team of mad scientists. Never afraid to hack together some crazy out of the box idea just to see if it COULD be done. I really hope wherever Vince's next chapter lands him he's able to keep pushing the envelope the same way he did for EVGA.
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Kamran
Damn these feelings, Bought my 1st EVGA mobo for just the looks, I thought this looks serious, didn't even know back then what I was gettings, and since then never looked back. nostalgia, good times, happy times, and now I feel sad. It's like a part of me died. This has been a great journey. Best of luck to Vince in the future and also to EVGA.
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Damn these feelings, Bought my 1st EVGA mobo for just the looks, I thought this looks serious, didn't even know back then what I was gettings, and since then never looked back. nostalgia, good times, happy times, and now I feel sad. It's like a part of me died. This has been a great journey. Best of luck to Vince in the future and also to EVGA.
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Mike
Shame if this guy loses his job because he is the heart & soul if enthusiasts He could be a prick but he s always presented himself on featured vids as a relatable guy & I hope him the best in the future. Vince , i hope all works out for you, I. Don t give a shit about people online but I hope you have a soft landing!
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Shame if this guy loses his job because he is the heart & soul if enthusiasts He could be a prick but he s always presented himself on featured vids as a relatable guy & I hope him the best in the future. Vince , i hope all works out for you, I. Don t give a shit about people online but I hope you have a soft landing!
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All-In
I remember being an intern in 2011/2 and they were modding a crystal (what they said) so they can SLI as many as they wanted together. Apparently companies doing CGI and all that would just buy normal GPUs and mod them because it was cheaper than the official Nvidia solution cause they mark the prices up for them.
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I remember being an intern in 2011/2 and they were modding a crystal (what they said) so they can SLI as many as they wanted together. Apparently companies doing CGI and all that would just buy normal GPUs and mod them because it was cheaper than the official Nvidia solution cause they mark the prices up for them.
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