dbe425

 I really don't understand all the secrecy with GPU companies.  If you plan on making something let it be known.  Loyal customers will wait.  Other tech companies tell you months in advance about their upcoming products.  Sometimes they tell you so early it takes an eternity before the item is actually released.       

far327

I was loyal to evga for 6 years before saying goodbye. They used to have such great service and support. Not the case anymore. My 790i ftw only got a year of bios updates before evga decided to stop supporting my mono. I wasn't able to run the revodrivex2 andhad requested a bios update. They refused to help. Shame on u evga! Just today I received two palit 580gtx 3072mb cards. Evga blows!

dbe425
 I really don't understand all the secrecy with GPU companies.  If you plan on making something let it be known.  Loyal customers will wait.  Other tech companies tell you months in advance about their upcoming products.  Sometimes they tell you so early it takes an eternity before the item is actually released.

bvsbutthd101

DDiaz591

far327
I was loyal to evga for 6 years before saying goodbye. They used to have such great service and support. Not the case anymore. My 790i ftw only got a year of bios updates before evga decided to stop supporting my mono. I wasn't able to run the revodrivex2 andhad requested a bios update. They refused to help. Shame on u evga! Just today I received two palit 580gtx 3072mb cards. Evga blows!

Disrespectful much?

+1, very disrespectful. EVGA is a great company. 

CraptacularOne

We've asked previously on several occasions and got no real response from EVGA. Which is why I just went and picked up 3 of the Palit cards. Apparently EVGA didn't want my $1,800 I spent on them......or they would have said something

yang88she

EarlZ

@[link=showprofile.aspx?memid=241406]CraptacularOne[/link]

What are the games you have that use over 1.5Gb ?

Im just curious becase I've mostly seen 900Mb usage on my end, so I have about 500-600Mb not utilized

very high resolution surround setups

ie. crap's/myself use 3x30, I personally enjoy mine in portrait @ 5156x2560 w/ bezel adjustment

to stay on topic, I would love to have gone w/ EVGA...that would have meant more cards for the masses and great warranty...had to go to Canada for one card and 2 in the UK, but paid the same price as if I purchased from the egg

lehpron

EVGA has had a history of a late-adoption to new trends such as USB3.0, SATA 6Gbps and DisplayPort support in their products.  For all of these, there has been a delay of a few months to a year first when the first ones pioneered the niche (in the case of SR-2, almost a year after dual LGA1366 boards debuted).  EVGA is a small company in the sense they rarely do SR2-like evtravagence without other players testing the water, unless it is an new CPU or chipset.  Gainward and Palit may not be popular names on theses forums, but that doesn't mean much outside; its not like everyone knows EVGA is number one just because they are to us.  Since most people aren't brand loyal, EVGA could be waiting for enough demand.  It does help to post threads like this (not saying go make another bunch of threads, I just mean getting the word out).

...or they may not have the intention, its hard to tell; no company is under any obligation to tell customers anything they tell distributors, investors, shareholders or employees.   Customers are really at the bottom of the chain when it comes to a company's plans.  Sometimes the future isn't in stone, for instance the wait for GTX590 due to nVidia wanting to steal spotlight of AMD's HD6990.  Both cards have been at the end of the runway for a while now, waiting for the other to go first.  This late, at least frequencies can be changed to make something look better.  In fact, GTX590 may be where EVGA's faith is at the moment, maybe a 3GB GTX580 could interfere with that?  Think about it.

dbe425
 I really don't understand all the secrecy with GPU companies.  If you plan on making something let it be known.  Loyal customers will wait.  Other tech companies tell you months in advance about their upcoming products.  Sometimes they tell you so early it takes an eternity before the item is actually released.

Secrecy = profit protection.  Put it this way, if your competition knew what you were doing, what gaurantees are there that they won't steal spotlight or affect your sales somehow?  Put it another way, would revealing an upcoming product prevent the sale of current models?  The latter happens often and the one reason why they don't want us to know.  The more we know, the more their stuff sits on shelves when they would have otherwise sold them off.  Again, it affects their ability to function as a profit-oriented business.

FYI, loyal customers of just about any brand or product, whether shoes or your favorite chocolate ice cream, are always a MINORITY against the rest, i.e. companies need a portion of the rest to worth the venture.  All companies must balance the total costs of a development plus profits to be lower than demand (the number of customers multiply by what they are willing to spend).  An imbalance = no reason to bother with it, whether they can't make it cheaper, not enough customers or they prefer to spend less.  Making money is the bottomline, not impressing the loyalists which can't keep any company afloat.

bvsbutthd101

DDiaz591

far327
I was loyal to evga for 6 years before saying goodbye. They used to have such great service and support. Not the case anymore. My 790i ftw only got a year of bios updates before evga decided to stop supporting my mono. I wasn't able to run the revodrivex2 andhad requested a bios update. They refused to help. Shame on u evga! Just today I received two palit 580gtx 3072mb cards. Evga blows!

Disrespectful much?

+1, very disrespectful. EVGA is a great company. 

He's allowed his opinion until he breaks the TOS, no matter what we think of it; and not that anyone said it, but he isn't a troll for voicing an opinion opposing the vocal minority in here.

basicallyevolve

If you ask me it is a horrible Practice. When they do not tell their customers about upcoming products all it does is make them lose more customers.

If Chevy was coming out with a new car... would they not turn and tell people who are die hard chevy fans about it? of course they would.. because those people who are interested in the upcoming vehicle will wait for it instead of settling for what is out then and there.

Same goes for phones. The Droid bionic... The Optimus 2x. Iphone coming to Verizon. If those companies who are going to be selling the phones made by LG , HTC and motorola  did not advertise the phones months in advance they would have a very hard time keeping customers. Think of how many customers ATT lost because of the iphone 4 heading to verizon? They got the word from verizon that they would be able to get it in a few months and people either did not renew to ATT or are waiting for the Verizon phone.

If Nvidia + EVGA  Helped out by talking about their products before hand like  Asus and Gigabyte do... it would leave a few customers with a good taste in their mouth knowing that a good product is going to hit the streets.
I would gladly wait for all EVGA products because i love their warranty and the fact they are 45 minutes away from me :P. But the secrecy is a bit too much as it stands. I just looked at the Maximum board basically sell out for the P67 so quickly  :P. I am sure if the maximus buyers knew more about the classified or a release date it would make at least half of them hold off for the classified. But knowing nothing about it will make it seem as if it will never come when everything else is already in the streets :P

Just my 2 cents :P

EVGA_JacobF

stay tuned.