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So EVGA is responsible even though the same thing happens with other manufacturer's boards and ATI cards?

Besides I don't know what they're really gaining by charging $20.  If an "unpatched" motherboard fries, they have to pay for an RMA and that's even more expensive than $20.

Very simple, how many boards have fried? Ive seen maybe 10 on the forums? Ok lets say 100 for the sake of argument. How many boards have sold? Lets say 10,000 to be very very conservative. So there is an issue with 1% of boards being ultra mega conservative on one end and generous on the other. As a business your going to give out free, possibly unnecessary adapters to all 10,00 due to a 1% chance a board runs into a problem? And the cost of that > RMA? EVGA is a company not your best friend, they do everything they can to help their customers which IMO leads back to the old saying 'give an inch and they want a mile'.

This is my last post in this thread as I clearly have my view and others have their own, I feel my peace has been spoken and do not wish to argue as it accomplishes nothing for anyone nor I. /2 cents given

 
You know who else only had several confirmed cases of a flaw? Toyota.
 
I'd say give out free ones to whoever fits the below requirements AND requests one:
 
1) Owns an affected EVGA motherboard that was registered and is under warranty.
2) Owns atleast 2 EVGA graphics cards that are registered and are under warranty.
 
That number won't be 10,000; but it would definitely give alot of people peace of mind.

Maybe those of us who have a documented case (I posted my pics of melted socket, EVGA replaced with a refurbished  m.b.) with EVGA should be given the "upgrade" for free, since we obviously have the hardware to make it happen at least the once (so far)!! And the fix at the time of incident was a replacement of THE SAME m.b. in question? Just a thought!

Funny...I only saw the promo because I've been watching the site because of my step up. I have two 480 sc+ and then the 580 launhes. Started the stepup a month ago to be number 215 in line! Now a month later I'm only 142 and I haven't moved for 3 days now. Emailed asking about the supply and guess what! No answer! Spend a few grand on evga boards and cards and they can't even hold up their own program. Is the step up window 90 days because it takes another 90 for it to be honored!?!

Comsidering how much I've spent on EVGA products over the past three years, I would have hoped for some kind of notification that these were available.
n790i and two EVGA GTX 280's.
E758 and two EVGA GTX 295's.
E759 and two EVGA GTX 480SC's.
And just recently a couple of EVGA GTX 580SC's.

   It would be interesting to know if EVGA intends to notify registered customers with qualifying boards of the potential hazards involved in certain configurations without the use of the Power boost Mod.  Since it is a verified issue, all qualifying customers who are contactable should be notified so they may purchase the mod to avoid future problems and loss of hardware.

I have a evga classi e760 with 3way 470s on it (other brand).
 
I had hoped to get this free as it fix for 75% of the people here. But oh well, Not going to toss out 20$ to fix something thats not my fault. If my board frys I will just RMA it.

Shoot i dont even run a evga mobo but i still want one of these. 

fbmbirds
Shoot i dont even run a evga mobo but i still want one of these. 

LOL 

Why post that in here. lol not to be mean but really. you need to start a new thread for that question. 
 
and welcome to the forums 
and no i doubt this thingamajigger will help u in that case
 

evspence

NEED SOME HELP HERE TECHIES!!!

ok so im 16 and times are tough, so my graphics card is a gt240 that i got from B-stock for a killer price. i have a 550W corsair psu. the mobo is a cheap POS dell that i got with the processor as a refurb. so anyways when i OC the gt240 in precision it never stays stable, and i mean barely overclocking. its not a heat problem i have an aftermarket DuOrb on the thing and it stays around 40 Celcius under load. I think it's not getting enough voltage from the MOBO (because that is its only source of power). does this thingamajigger mean i can OC my gt240 with stability with the added voltage or am i just SOL?

THANKS A BUNCH!

I have to admit, 759 and 760 loyal customers having to pay for something that cost mere pennies to have the Chinese make is kinda sad. I am quite disappointed myself that these customers were not notified about the upcoming release as alot of people have been waiting on this to make GPU purchases, myself included. 

5thduke

ive been using it for two weeks, i now have an improved 5 and 12 volt read out according to everest i have not done a multi test though.

Same here (See below.)
 
Without Power Boost Plug

With Power Boost Plug

$20 is no big deal, but no availability IS a big deal.

it isnt about the $20 its the fact that they want to profit from a mfg flaw, that i find disturbing. i can honestly chuck my e759 in the garbage and buy myself whatever motherboard i want...what i want is to look at evga like they arent slipping into the relm of shady practice.

i have no options but to wait 

PuffY

it isnt about the $20 its the fact that they want to profit from a mfg flaw, that i find disturbing. i can honestly chuck my e759 in the garbage and buy myself whatever motherboard i want...what i want is to look at evga like they arent slipping into the relm of shady practice.

A Manufacturing flaw? No you are wrong. Intel and AMD went out of spec on what they set for standards. Now there cards are drawing more power and the lanes can not hold up to it and pulling to much from the 24 pin connector.
 
On another note in one of your other posts. The E759, a Design Flaw? You apparently don't know **** about that board. There is no design flaw. With any of the boards EVGA makes for that matter. With the E759 they have the NF200 Chip so every PCI-E lane runs at 16x no matter what. The E760 doesn't have that, the E759 was a limited run. If you don't want your 759, you can end that peice of "garbage" to me.
 
I will gladly pay $20 for this adapter. No company saw this coming, but if you look at every new board that comes out, you will notice a Molex or 6pin plug built in to each bored. I bet if you looked at other company's boards that were built back at the beginning of the release of the X58/P55 you won't find it. If you do, it will be on only 1 or 2 boards.