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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.

 
You mad bro? The rest of the world will facepalm at the fact that you'd rather spend $300+ on a new board, have to go through rebuilding the entire rig with the new board, and a new OS installation and all the headaches that come along with that, rather than spend $20 on a product that has free shipping and will take a grand total of 5 minutes to install.
 
You may have the time to take our your board, reinstall everything on a new board, and put the board back in, and reinstall OS and drivers. The rest of the world has jobs and families.
 
Add in the fact that if you show that you have had this problem EVGA marketing will probably cover you in some way.

I was just wondering if anybody that signed up for the free one has gotten an email notification yet?I received the initial one but I am still waiting for the second one.

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Well no wonder they went way fast people where getting 2 or more of them.....
 
I say kudos to evga for bringing out this fix. i just dont like the fact they are charging $20 for it they have put pcie power plug on in the past so why on earth did they choose to get sli capable boards made with out them? this is not about foreseeing boards melting the 24pin connector. that's why we pay for evga we know they are great boards and they will back them. i would make it so that people that have a registered evga x58 board with you that does not come with a pci plug already get it for 5-10 dollars start including it with your boards that are already in production even if you have to charge 5-10 more and future boards need to have them built in if they are sli capable.

If anyone is really mad enough why not just go on to Nvidia fourms and complain to the people who actually caused the problem?? EVGA is a medium we use to get NVIDIA products, so if theres a design flaw with the hardware itself then 99.99% of the time it will be the people who designed the reference boards and GPUs ie. NVIDIA/AMD.
 
I dont know how many of you really have read the technical white sheets, but you will never find a molex 4pin power connecter to stablize or increase the 12v on any standard design feature from NVIDIAor AMD. So why would EVGA even think to add one?
Now with the cases of EVGA creating there own PCB boards like the E-762 / SR-2 and P55 equal they knew that they would be stressing the 24pin 12v and then added the molex connecter to counter this.
 
But now after all this disorganized mess were dealing with it will hopefully become standard pratice by NVIDIA/AMD in there refernce designs... This is why NVIDIA/AMD should be made aware of the problem/design flaw they have created by STRAYING AWAY FROM POWER STANDARDS AND LIMITATIONS OF A HARDWARE POWER DRAW.(refreing to the fact that the 24pin when it was first designed was never ment to power multiple high wattage using GPUs)
 
As far as the power boost is considered, it should be handed out for free for user that are "AT RISK" (2+ 200series GPUs or newer).
For everyone else, as of right now it sucks but $20 with free shipping is a drop in the bucket for something that was never intended to be needed or made by anyone. So if you dont like the price ask or better yet tell NVIDIA/AMD to compinsate you for there screw up. So consider yourself lucky EVGA spent the time and money to CREATE a fix for there Parent companies shortfalls, I garentee you EVGA will never be compinsated by NVIDIA for there work/effort.
 
Edit: change ATI to AMD, since ATI is now just AMD

I put my name in, but have not heard and email's back from evga, are they just backed up, or did I not get in on the free deal. This sure would put my 760 worries at ease with 3 480's and a 465 on there.

mudvari

ZachA

If anyone is really mad enough why not just go on to Nvidia fourms and complain to the people who actually caused the problem?? EVGA is a medium we use to get NVIDIA products, so if theres a design flaw with the hardware itself then 99.99% of the time it will be the people who designed the reference boards and GPUs ie. NVIDIA/AMD.

I dont know how many of you really have read the technical white sheets, but you will never find a molex 4pin power connecter to stablize or increase the 12v on any standard design feature from NVIDIAor AMD. So why would EVGA even think to add one?
Now with the cases of EVGA creating there own PCB boards like the E-762 / SR-2 and P55 equal they knew that they would be stressing the 24pin 12v and then added the molex connecter to counter this.

But now after all this disorganized mess were dealing with it will hopefully become standard pratice by NVIDIA/AMD in there refernce designs... This is why NVIDIA/AMD should be made aware of the problem/design flaw they have created by STRAYING AWAY FROM POWER STANDARDS AND LIMITATIONS OF A HARDWARE POWER DRAW.(refreing to the fact that the 24pin when it was first designed was never ment to power multiple high wattage using GPUs)

As far as the power boost is considered, it should be handed out for free for user that are "AT RISK" (2+ 200series GPUs or newer).
For everyone else, as of right now it sucks but $20 with free shipping is a drop in the bucket for something that was never intended to be needed or made by anyone. So if you dont like the price ask or better yet tell NVIDIA/AMD to compinsate you for there screw up. So consider yourself lucky EVGA spent the time and money to CREATE a fix for there Parent companies shortfalls, I garentee you EVGA will never be compinsated by NVIDIA for there work/effort.

Edit: change ATI to AMD, since ATI is now just AMD

+1
I totally agree!!!

I just believe with all this agression why not use it productively by expressing your thoughts or feelings to the people that can actually inforce a standardized change in PCB board layouts instead of realing on there distributers to fix it for them

because they will farm it off on the brands to do it. because evga, gigabite etc. all tell foxconn or who ever make their board what they want on it and how. im not saying that evga should give them out for free just sell them at cost to evga customers and make sure that the next boards all have a pcie power connection on board so this should not happen again.

xargon321
because they will farm it off on the brands to do it. because evga, gigabite etc. all tell foxconn or who ever make their board what they want on it and how. im not saying that evga should give them out for free just sell them at cost to evga customers and make sure that the next boards all have a pcie power connection on board so this should not happen again.

Hey, if you saw the way they packaged an SLI connector I ordered recently, this probably is at cost!
..and if you don't get what I'm talking about, the little SLI connector came in a 6"x6"x3" box with packing peanuts and all, delivered by UPS - the delivery guys could have used it as a football and it still would have arrived intact. EVGA certainly didn't spare any expense with the packaging/shipping. Thanks EVGA.

im not talking about shipping i can pay shipping its like $5 to ship at the most so because they offer free shipping its still $15 for what cost them probably $3 in parts to make and $2 in packaging (not shipping packaging just the item) i would be happy if they sell it to registered evga motherboard or video car owners for $10 shipped

i bet one word gets out on this that other brand with make their own or a third party will start making them. there is going to be a Huge Market for them.

i didnt get any compromise? so you must be sorry, i did get an email from jacob trying to tell me from afar that my psu 24 pin is the culprit when in fact there is no doubt its the motherboards 24 pin that is the problem...i do own 4 psu's i only needed to test with 2 to be fully conviced its the motherboard...
thats not even the problem here i dont like to see evga SELL an item that should be FREE if its what will make the motherboard perform to spec without issue! i bought the board to run tri sli, if it needs an adapter to do it it should be bundled with the motherboard. maybe evga should go after the mfg to recoup some of there losses, not project them to the consumer. thats how i feel and i dont care what the fanboy thinks, no one can change that, so bang away!

Actually it may have been Waveskimmer I was thinking of.
 
So you had this melting molex problem three times running 3 x GTX 285 SSC cards?

ZachA

If anyone is really mad enough why not just go on to Nvidia fourms and complain to the people who actually caused the problem?? EVGA is a medium we use to get NVIDIA products, so if theres a design flaw with the hardware itself then 99.99% of the time it will be the people who designed the reference boards and GPUs ie. NVIDIA/AMD.

I dont know how many of you really have read the technical white sheets, but you will never find a molex 4pin power connecter to stablize or increase the 12v on any standard design feature from NVIDIAor AMD. So why would EVGA even think to add one?
Now with the cases of EVGA creating there own PCB boards like the E-762 / SR-2 and P55 equal they knew that they would be stressing the 24pin 12v and then added the molex connecter to counter this.

But now after all this disorganized mess were dealing with it will hopefully become standard pratice by NVIDIA/AMD in there refernce designs... This is why NVIDIA/AMD should be made aware of the problem/design flaw they have created by STRAYING AWAY FROM POWER STANDARDS AND LIMITATIONS OF A HARDWARE POWER DRAW.(refreing to the fact that the 24pin when it was first designed was never ment to power multiple high wattage using GPUs)

As far as the power boost is considered, it should be handed out for free for user that are "AT RISK" (2+ 200series GPUs or newer).
For everyone else, as of right now it sucks but $20 with free shipping is a drop in the bucket for something that was never intended to be needed or made by anyone. So if you dont like the price ask or better yet tell NVIDIA/AMD to compinsate you for there screw up. So consider yourself lucky EVGA spent the time and money to CREATE a fix for there Parent companies shortfalls, I garentee you EVGA will never be compinsated by NVIDIA for there work/effort.

Edit: change ATI to AMD, since ATI is now just AMD

 
I was with ya, til you tried to convince me that the E-759 Classified is a reference board. Wasn't marketed  that way.

 
For anyone wondering, this is what happens to your mobo and PSU, though I crashed mine without a full self destruct happenin.  I would gladly have spent $50 to avoid this, especially considering the fact that I had just ordered all my watercooling parts, so now I get to sit around with them waiting for my PSU to come back from RMA.
 
Thank God for EVGA, otherwise my stupid butt would be trying to solder stuff to a $200 board, or trying to sell it at a loss and buy a $400-500 board with the native power mod.  If only I had known of this problem before building, I would have waited on my 3rd 480 and spent the extra couple hundred to get a board with a native power mod,  like the 762+ revisions of the Classified.
 
I can't wait till I get the notification email, so buying one of these.  In fact since I also have 2 extra pci-e slots open I'm starting to wonder if I should buy 2 of them just to make sure my 480 tri sli doesn't overload the 24 pin again.