Is eVGA any good?

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Ok... now I'm curious. Is eVGA any good? I've read a lot of good things about eVGA and (as I've posted recently) I'm building a new super computer. As it stands now, I trust only Intel. Intel has a good chipset. My problem with Intel is that it doesn't support SLI. I want SLI for future upgrades.

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Ok... now I'm curious. Is eVGA any good? I've read a lot of good things about eVGA and (as I've posted recently) I'm building a new super computer. As it stands now, I trust only Intel. Intel has a good chipset. My problem with Intel is that it doesn't support SLI. I want SLI for future upgrades.

Any good info?

Most people will put it in the top three, many call it the best because of their lifetime warranty and upgrade program.

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eVGA here! Nice, Warenty is gold, they have personally helped users at the release of the 7900GT and they was the first to release a GFX card without the issue. I think you can even change your cooler without void it. Not sure though.

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My issue is always the warranty. I want a good product, but I want proof of the good warranty. What it says it rarely what is means. I know, I used to work for Best Buy!

Intel will replace defective boards. eVGA leaves the option open. Asus chose to fix my defective board. It took them 6 months. Lil things like that bother me, when I need a computer now.

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IMO, I would rank eVGA high in my choices. I had a geforce 2 way back in the day, the memory on the card went bad, getting random artifacts and what not. Called up eVGA and even though they don't officially do so, they cross-shipped me a new card, so I had no down time.

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Dude... you are soooo mush skeptical... Noting will apend to you if you broke a Mirror. nothing appends to you the 13th Friday... nothing will apends to you with eVGA...

Dude, I don't know what you do to collect trouble here and here, but damn... The store where I passed my training 2 years ago as always sold Asus motherboards and we have got almost never negative comeback. I talk about a store, not a single person. Seriously, stop to paranoid :|

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Dude... you are soooo mush skeptical... Noting will apend to you if you broke a Mirror. nothing appends to you the 13th Friday... nothing will apends to you with eVGA...

Dude, I don't know what you do to collect trouble here and here, but damn... The store where I passed my training 2 years ago as always sold Asus motherboards and we have got almost never negative comeback. I talk about a store, not a single person. Seriously, stop to paranoid :|

First of all, it's "happens" and second of all, he's not being paranoid. Where do you see such behavior? Give me a break. If you have no experience with the company in question, leave it be.

As for my experience with EVGA: I actually bought a card from them before they became the behemoth they are today. I was impressed with the quality. I never needed their support or warranty, but the company is definitely trust worthy.

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I'm seeing a bit of confusion (or lack of clarity on my part) about the discussion.

I'm asking more about the motherboards than the video cards. As it stands now, I have a BFG card for the system. The motherboard has yet to be selected. The current top runner, an Intel board that will be released in a few weeks, is very good. But not SLI. And I want SLI optional in the future.

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I'm seeing a bit of confusion (or lack of clarity on my part) about the discussion.

I'm asking more about the motherboards than the video cards. As it stands now, I have a BFG card for the system. The motherboard has yet to be selected. The current top runner, an Intel board that will be released in a few weeks, is very good. But not SLI. And I want SLI optional in the future.

As far as I know, SLI is only suportted on nVidia chipsets, I think some Intel chipsets support crossfire. So you will have to get an nVidia solution if you want SLI which means getting something other than an Intel branded motherboard.

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As far as I know, SLI is only suportted on nVidia chipsets, I think some Intel chipsets support crossfire. So you will have to get an nVidia solution if you want SLI which means getting something other than an Intel branded motherboard.

I figured as much. It's a matter of finding a reliable board with good service. People are saying good things about eVGA video cards but I'm not hearing so much about their motherboards.

Most importantly - I want to know about the eVGA quality and support. Stories, dammit, good and bad. Like I said; with intel, the board fails and you get a new one. Is it the same with eVGA? I will not stand for my computer to be out of commission for longer than 2 weeks. With Asus it was 6 months... thankfull I plunked down 500$ to buy all new material.

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I figured as much. It's a matter of finding a reliable board with good service. People are saying good things about eVGA video cards but I'm not hearing so much about their motherboards.

And if you want something about bad service, I guess I should say about the Intel Network adapter I have the sits in a box not working. I called Intel, their diagnosis, it was a counterfit card and if I sent it in and it was truely counterfit, I would be out the money for good, no mention of them saying "Hey, good job at getting us a counterfit that we can check out, we'll send you a genunie Intel card for your troubles." So I decided to keep the card because I sent in closeup's and they think it is counterfit (I bought from Newegg..) so I rather just keep it in its box. If I was Intel, I would've sent a replacement card no matter what because either way, I was doing them a service by helping them with counterfits, or I was getting a replacement for a faulty genunie Intel adapter.

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First of all, it's "happens"

Sure, you talk to a guy that have saw some great products like WD HDD of LG DVD drives arrives at the store not working. Even a Maxtor drive as fail in the initial format... Bad stuff happens to all brands.
and second of all, he's not being paranoid. Where do you see such behavior?
He wanted to pay allot more for less before when he wanted a DELL, the reason given to pay more is the warranty.

But tell me why he will trust more Intel that give 3 years Warranty on his board and be skeptical on the eVGA that give lifetime warranty

If you have no experience with the company in question, leave it be.
I own a eVGA Card and it work very well, I have saw what they had did in the 7900GT troubled first times. I also owned 5 Asus Mtb, no one as got trouble. As for Dell in other posts, I have worked with over 300 used Dell system and to have proprietary parts is a ******* to replace one the warranty is over.

Also about eVGA mainboards, this wasn't the sector of eVGA before, but now they are starting to consider it. Think also that the eVGA board is the reference board from nVIDIA as same that the Bad Axe (2) is the reference from Intel. You just can't go wrong with this, it's the motherboard that nVIDIA use to promote the GF8.

I hope it will help you Deck to understand my point of view.

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Sure, you talk to a guy that have saw some great products like WD HDD of LG DVD drives arrives at the store not working. Even a Maxtor drive as fail in the initial format... Bad stuff happens to all brands.

Maxtor is NOT a great product. I don't know what you have available where you are from but those two names I have had nothing but issues with since the early 90's. And also, if you've never had issues with a Video Card, you don't use it as much as the next guy.

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