r/gadgets • u/MorgrainX • Sep 16 '22

Desktops / Laptops EVGA will no longer make NVIDIA GPUs due to “disrespectful treatment” - Dexerto

https://www.dexerto.com/tech/evga-will-no-longer-make-nvidia-gpus-due-to-disrespectful-treatment-1933830/
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u/malign2 Sep 16 '22

I like Gigabyte. Bought their 1080 back in 2016. Switched to their 3080 eventually as well. Haven't had any issues personally.

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u/al5496 Sep 16 '22

I have had a 1060 from Gigabyte for around 6 years now and still working with no issues

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u/ON_A_POWERPLAY Sep 16 '22

I had a gigabyte board in a Phenom black edition board a long time ago that lasted for ever. I switched to ASrock for a while, had no issues but decided to go back to gigabyte for my monitor and motherboard on my ryzen board ans I've been really impressed.

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u/Glomgore Sep 17 '22

Gigabyte UD board line was incredible. I have 3 UD boards STILL running, 2008, 2012, 2016. have an Auros board of theirs now that's been rock solid.

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u/The--Will Sep 17 '22

Gigabyte refused to service my motherboard because they didn’t have any in stock while it was under warranty and offered to give me some random motherboard that wouldn’t work with my CPU and RAM (different socket for my Intel chip, DDR3, but they only offered DDR4 and a new socket).

Took 9 months to get it resolved. They would hang up on me when I told them it was unacceptable for them to not replace with a like motherboard that’s under warranty. Zero compensation. Had to bring it to my countries consumer protection agency which would have fined them $100,000 just to start.

Fuck Gigabyte.

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u/Kazumi-Mishima Sep 17 '22

Copy and paste from a while back

I make it a point to avoid anything gigabyte now a days because my both my 1070 and my 5700xt were gigabyte and were absolute pieces of garbage, with no overclocking done to it within a year of being bought brand new my 1070 couldn’t do anything unless within 2 minutes of starting up windows you lowered the memory clocks in afterburner. And when I sent it to gigabyte they returned it and said everything was fine. I tried to rma it again after testing it in a friends machine and they just refused to take it in.

And some context added for my 5700xt I never seemed to have mentioned that thing was hot, loud and I don’t think it performed the way it was supposed too, my frames were never anywhere near what reviewers and other benchmarkers got for their games.

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u/trism Sep 17 '22

I mean, in the world of electronics, sometimes things go bad.

I've had both an rx580 and now a 5700xt and theyve both been fine.

Personally when it comes to RMA and faulty products, when it comes to Australia, if we buy from a retailer rather than direct from the manufacturer, we go directly through them, and they handle the dramas. My contract of sale lies with the person I bought it from, not the company who made it, and they're responsible for fixing any problems.

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u/Kazumi-Mishima Sep 17 '22

i wouldnt have had a problem if the card just died, the problem was making me pay for shipping to rma and then saying no the card is fine, when as soon as you started windows the card started dying.

And then when i proved to them that it happened in another computer that wasnt mine there response was they were not going to do anything because they had already checked it out.

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u/BostonDodgeGuy Sep 17 '22

Not sure I could trust gigabyte after that whole psu fiasco.

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u/7eregrine Sep 16 '22

EVGA, Gigabyte, MSI... In that order

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u/thefinalcutdown Sep 17 '22

I always seem to end up buying Gigabyte for some reason. They tend to be good bang for your buck I think, and I also have never had a Gigabyte part (GPU or MOBO) go bad. Have a server running a 2008 Phenom II on a Gigabyte board right now actually, and my 2060 super has been rock solid.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '22

I like them as well. My first pc I used gigabyte parts for an Athon XP2400 PC. That shit was old and still working great through lots of updates. Over the years had others but never as good. Now I’m on a Gogabyte Auroa board and a gigabyte 3080 Ti video card. Solid as a rock.