Nereus

Gold Leader
Oh wells my bad news is that my R9 290X died just after the lifetime warranty

Wait.. the R9 290X was only launched 3 years ago.. is that what they call a 'lifetime warranty'? LMAO.. another reason to go EVGA/NVidia.. extended warranty up to 10 years (or 5 years for a lesser cost), not to mention the awesome EVGA after sale service if needed. Your choice of course. :)
 
 

Meh the reply of a Pro NV puppet as it seems and I know EVGA is a place for Pro NV based users and that is fine as long they don't shove that in an others face, or like mine I am fine with it.
but it's good I also know neutral minded people here, those I prefer to be very honest
A reply like this I declare as not really helpful, more like insulting to be honest
Also for your info I seen plenty topics where GTX 1070 & GTX 1080 users have major issues so might want to keep your assumptions to yourself thanks
As for Deaths with NV GPU's let's see, okay check this out then;
 
GTX 1080 Exploded? that for a 780 Euro VGA card eh?
http://forums.evga.com/1080-FTW-exploded-now-dead-and-took-other-parts-with-it-m2583259.aspx
 
Welp I never seen a 3dfx, Matrox, ATi/AMD, S3 or Power VR card Explode on me, not even once, but does that even matter?
 
More troubles with GTX 1000 based cards here, lots of problems.
http://forums.evga.com/EV...ce-10-Series-f103.aspx
 
EVGA Service in the EU isn't as great as in USA, the same with Corsair and other companies like ASUS & TYAN.
In USA RMA's are amazing that I know, but in the EU it's sadly not the case, so mostly I can't be bothered RMA'ing broken material since I mostly wait longer than 3 months, it's lost valuable time.I mean if the RMA service is worthless, what's the point?
 
My best GeForce cards were  the EVGA GeForce GTX 295 Red Editions, I could afford those because I sold all my 3dfx Voodoo5 Engineering Samples, still something I regretted doing..But I did get something awesome for it back and I still have my GTX 295 Red Editions, just for the memory I had with them.
 
So Ugh, I mean seriously, if you plan to be helpful post a quality reply over such Better buy NV /EVGA bla bla nonsense, that really isn't helping me, I can't afford those brands anymore so they are intermediate drop offs
 
Due to being 100% Disabled and chronically ill I do not have the money to buy overpriced NV based hardware, also the drivers VN makes are shocking I am sticking with AMD for now, my R9 290X ran great for 3 years no driver issues at all, really nothing.
 
Also as an experienced VGA card collector & user, I had well over 800 VGA Cards since 1991, all sorts of hardware can die new or old it doesn't matter, that is something I can tell you without proving it.
Only back in the day when I was young, I rarely to never seen the odd symptoms people are having today, like VGA cards blowing up, or short lifetime failures, lower quality solder, lower quality parts all being used to lower production costs this is the main cause why computer hardware has much shorter lifespans and this has to mean the quality of everything is just a lot less.
 
Anyways I will buy on what I can afford, I too get less due to the changing economy,as long as I can play the games I love with friends I enjoy being with I will buy what I can afford.
NVIDIA  does not have what I see for 290 Euro's AMD Wins with their RX 480 for that price, everything NV Offers is slower so, I Have found what I need then.
For one GTX 1080 I can upgrade three of my systems with a RX 480 8GB, so Cut the easy Buy NV only nonsense talk and try to understand it from my end over your opinions.
It's fine you can afford such expensive things, thing is I can not, it took me four years to build my main server and it's probably the last system I can ever build with such hardware, due to the changing economy, people like me get less and less, since we pay more taxes etc.
 
So I have to deal with what I have at the current time.

i'm reading this thread and i'm getting a fair laugh at you lot. i come from a 290LCS to a 1080, yes i can see bigger clocks on my 1080 but in reality i could have bought another 6x 290second user and i would have been more chuffed for the same price as paid for my 1080 but that's not the point, you pay for quality with Nvidia and i have yet to see it on the 1080FTW.
 
i'm more concerned that after my warranty has ended that the 1080 will POP and i will be left with a door stop. :(  

baconinabun
i'm reading this thread and i'm getting a fair laugh at you lot. i come from a 290LCS to a 1080, yes i can see bigger clocks on my 1080 but in reality i could have bought another 6x 290second user and i would have been more chuffed for the same price as paid for my 1080 but that's not the point, you pay for quality with Nvidia and i have yet to see it on the 1080FTW.
 
i'm more concerned that after my warranty has ended that the 1080 will POP and i will be left with a door stop. :(  

I pay for quality with ATi/AMD  as I did with 3dfx, what is your point and how can you speak truth of GTX 1080's are exploding? 
These things are not even a few weeks old?
How can you see these cards as quality products while there are many users having so much troubles with them?
 
Unless you didn't read my post something I do expect ?
 
Sorry but your post is worthless as it doesn't prove anything...moving on,
 
Quality eh?
http://forums.evga.com/EVGA-GTX-1080-ACX-30-Disaster-m2584861.aspx
 
Sorry I don't do bad designs, especially if they cost me 780 Euro.
 
Anything can break; NVIDIA AMD or any other brand, if you have experience, you'd know what I mean right?
It's the risk we all take.

Gold Leader

baconinabun
i'm reading this thread and i'm getting a fair laugh at you lot. i come from a 290LCS to a 1080, yes i can see bigger clocks on my 1080 but in reality i could have bought another 6x 290second user and i would have been more chuffed for the same price as paid for my 1080 but that's not the point, you pay for quality with Nvidia and i have yet to see it on the 1080FTW.
 
i'm more concerned that after my warranty has ended that the 1080 will POP and i will be left with a door stop. :(  

I pay for quality with ATi/AMD  as I did with 3dfx, what is your point and how can you speak truth of GTX 1080's are exploding? 
These things are not even a few weeks old?
How can you see these cards as quality products while there are many users having so much troubles with them?
 
Unless you didn't read my post something I do expect ?
 
Sorry but your post is worthless as it doesn't prove anything...moving on,
 
Quality eh?
http://forums.evga.com/EVGA-GTX-1080-ACX-30-Disaster-m2584861.aspx
 
Sorry I don't do bad designs, especially if they cost me 780 Euro.
 
Anything can break; NVIDIA AMD or any other brand, if you have experience, you'd know what I mean right?
It's the risk we all take.

 
try reading what i posted rather than skipping through it, you might find what you have said makes you so like post edited
 
EDIT: and afore you start again my motherboard supports 6x GPUs and a possible 7th one

baconinabun

Gold Leader

baconinabun
i'm reading this thread and i'm getting a fair laugh at you lot. i come from a 290LCS to a 1080, yes i can see bigger clocks on my 1080 but in reality i could have bought another 6x 290second user and i would have been more chuffed for the same price as paid for my 1080 but that's not the point, you pay for quality with Nvidia and i have yet to see it on the 1080FTW.
 
i'm more concerned that after my warranty has ended that the 1080 will POP and i will be left with a door stop. :(  

I pay for quality with ATi/AMD  as I did with 3dfx, what is your point and how can you speak truth of GTX 1080's are exploding? 
These things are not even a few weeks old?
How can you see these cards as quality products while there are many users having so much troubles with them?
 
Unless you didn't read my post something I do expect ?
 
Sorry but your post is worthless as it doesn't prove anything...moving on,
 
Quality eh?
http://forums.evga.com/EVGA-GTX-1080-ACX-30-Disaster-m2584861.aspx
 
Sorry I don't do bad designs, especially if they cost me 780 Euro.
 
Anything can break; NVIDIA AMD or any other brand, if you have experience, you'd know what I mean right?
It's the risk we all take.

try reading what i posted rather than skipping through it, you might find what you have said makes you sound like post edited
 
EDIT: and afore you start again my motherboard supports 6x GPUs and a possible 7th one 

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Gold Leader

Nereus

Gold Leader
Oh wells my bad news is that my R9 290X died just after the lifetime warranty

Wait.. the R9 290X was only launched 3 years ago.. is that what they call a 'lifetime warranty'? LMAO.. another reason to go EVGA/NVidia.. extended warranty up to 10 years (or 5 years for a lesser cost), not to mention the awesome EVGA after sale service if needed. Your choice of course. :)
 
 

Meh the reply of a Pro NV puppet as it seems and I know EVGA is a place for Pro NV based users and that is fine as long they don't shove that in an others face, or like mine I am fine with it.
but it's good I also know neutral minded people here, those I prefer to be very honest
A reply like this I declare as not really helpful, more like insulting to be honest
Also for your info I seen plenty topics where GTX 1070 & GTX 1080 users have major issues so might want to keep your assumptions to yourself thanks
As for Deaths with NV GPU's let's see, okay check this out then;
 
GTX 1080 Exploded? that for a 780 Euro VGA card eh?
http://forums.evga.com/1080-FTW-exploded-now-dead-and-took-other-parts-with-it-m2583259.aspx
 
Welp I never seen a 3dfx, Matrox, ATi/AMD, S3 or Power VR card Explode on me, not even once, but does that even matter?
 
More troubles with GTX 1000 based cards here, lots of problems.
http://forums.evga.com/EV...ce-10-Series-f103.aspx
 
EVGA Service in the EU isn't as great as in USA, the same with Corsair and other companies like ASUS & TYAN.
In USA RMA's are amazing that I know, but in the EU it's sadly not the case, so mostly I can't be bothered RMA'ing broken material since I mostly wait longer than 3 months, it's lost valuable time.I mean if the RMA service is worthless, what's the point?
 
My best GeForce cards were  the EVGA GeForce GTX 295 Red Editions, I could afford those because I sold all my 3dfx Voodoo5 Engineering Samples, still something I regretted doing..But I did get something awesome for it back and I still have my GTX 295 Red Editions, just for the memory I had with them.
 
So Ugh, I mean seriously, if you plan to be helpful post a quality reply over such Better buy NV /EVGA bla bla nonsense, that really isn't helping me, I can't afford those brands anymore so they are intermediate drop offs
 
Due to being 100% Disabled and chronically ill I do not have the money to buy overpriced NV based hardware, also the drivers VN makes are shocking I am sticking with AMD for now, my R9 290X ran great for 3 years no driver issues at all, really nothing.
 
Also as an experienced VGA card collector & user, I had well over 800 VGA Cards since 1991, all sorts of hardware can die new or old it doesn't matter, that is something I can tell you without proving it.
Only back in the day when I was young, I rarely to never seen the odd symptoms people are having today, like VGA cards blowing up, or short lifetime failures, lower quality solder, lower quality parts all being used to lower production costs this is the main cause why computer hardware has much shorter lifespans and this has to mean the quality of everything is just a lot less.
 
Anyways I will buy on what I can afford, I too get less due to the changing economy,as long as I can play the games I love with friends I enjoy being with I will buy what I can afford.
NVIDIA  does not have what I see for 290 Euro's AMD Wins with their RX 480 for that price, everything NV Offers is slower so, I Have found what I need then.
For one GTX 1080 I can upgrade three of my systems with a RX 480 8GB, so Cut the easy Buy NV only nonsense talk and try to understand it from my end over your opinions.
It's fine you can afford such expensive things, thing is I can not, it took me four years to build my main server and it's probably the last system I can ever build with such hardware, due to the changing economy, people like me get less and less, since we pay more taxes etc.
 
So I have to deal with what I have at the current time.

WOW nice wall of text.
 
Lighten up Gold Leader, I wrote my post with a smile on my face thinking you'd take it the same way - I mean, these ARE the EVGA forums after all, and considering this place is full of fiercely loyal members (and for good reason), exactly what did you expect coming here posting how the competition is better? LOL! Sorry if you took my 'trash post' as an insult - it wasn't meant that way.
 
AMD have plenty of problems of their own, and trying to argue they are superior to NVidia is just not reality. They have been playing catch up with NVidia for a long time, and still are. That's not an opinion, that's a fact.
 
By the end of your post you stated you are buying what you can afford, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.
 
Your presence here is appreciated btw, particularly your long time maintenance of the ModsRigs +1 thread, so again, please don't take my comment so personally.
 
 

Everyone stop with the personal attacks and vulgar posts. If you have opinions, feel free to share them. If you want to try and bash someone, either take it to PM or dont post it. I dont care which.

Lets all act like adults.

Scarlet-Tech
Everyone stop with the personal attacks and vulgar posts. If you have opinions, feel free to share them. If you want to try and bash someone, either take it to PM or dont post it. I dont care which.

Lets all act like adults.

+1

Well it's a decent post not just a wall of text, I am not one that would post something without needed information as most of my post have shown since the past.
And I know when I read something that isn't friendly towards me I have too much experience in such things sadly, oh wells thanks for your apology and EVGA forum or not, being open minded and neutral is the one reason I come here, not many communities like this accept people of other interests so as that goes, I don't think it matters of this places is opted for one brand.
 
And I know I used to be like you guys always going for the latest and the greatest, ya know Quad SLI GTX 295 Red Editions 2-Way SLI setups of EVGA GTX 480's 580 1.5GB's & 680 Sig SC 2GB's and that were great times for sure :)
But nowadays those days are over for me and I buy hardware no matter what brand just to enjoy my games, simulators and other programs, my reso's aren't all so demanding either, they are 1920x 1200 for my main systems, 1440 x 900 for my test system an 1024 x 768 for my retro setups. So yeah not much to expect for me as VGA cards goes either.
 
But not to worry though, I will keep updating the MR List and lest hope this RX 490 will be a healthy competition against NVIDIA's offering that is what I want, a healthy competitions of both so there is at least some choice

@gold leader
 
i accept your apology too, but i am in total agreement with you when I read something that isn't friendly towards me it makes me sad and then i react with words that other users might not agree with, but we both know where we stand, if you feel you need to PM me it would be good to hear from you now or in the future :D