Hello EVGA,
 
My company made a decision to standardize all of our servers and use EVGA 1300 watt PSU's.  I'm beginning to be concerned that this was a bad idea.  We can't find any 1300 watt psu's...everyone is out of stock. (Coming up on three weeks.)  Sure, there are scalpers on Amazon and eBay selling them for $269 to $410 dollars a piece but I am not inclined to be ripped off.
 
Could you please indicate whether or not more shipments are coming to your major vendors?  Thank you!
 
 

Not to worry because even if a product is discontinued and you need to have this same product replaced (during its warranty period), if none are available we send a product of equal or better performance. 

EVGATech_JoseR
Not to worry because even if a product is discontinued and you need to have this same product replaced (during its warranty period), if none are available we send a product of equal or better performance. 

 The G3 is NOT equal or better performance - at this point EVGA does not HAVE a replacement for any G2 series power supply that offers equal performance from a long-term reliability standpoint.
 
 IMO you should never have shut down production of the G2 line, the G3 uses a JUNK SLEEVE BEARING FAN that is NOT going to last - a decision EVGA will be strongly regretting once the G3 hits the 2-3 year old point if you are LUCKY.

A car or truck engine has a large amount of oil compared to the amount it actually needs for just lubrication purposes, a fan does not - and a car is specifically designed to ADD MORE OIL TO IT BECAUSE those seals leak and the engine loses oil.
Do you routinely try to drive your car for YEARS between oil checks?
You can't even DO a check on a fan without disassembling it.
Do you drive your car and never check the oil while running it at 80% or more of it's maximum speed most of the time?
That's COMMON on many computer fans, in some cases the actual figure is 100% because they CAN'T be throttled.
 
 
  A car engine ROUTINELY is operated at 20% or less of it's maximum power level for small car engines, 10% or less for most V6 and often less than 5% for many V8 engines.
It's a bloody rare computer fan that EVER sees that low of usage on a folding, gaming, or mining rig except when the rig is turned off entirely, be it in a PS, a case fan, a GPU fan, or on a CPU.
 
 One more point - car and truck engines in most cases are operated for well under 400 hours a year (taxicab, police, and long haul truckers are a partial list of exceptions - but ask the folks that maintain those type of vehicles how often they have to add oil in a year).
 Computer fans often are expected to operate 8760 hours in a year (24/365) - for an average car to get to that many hours of operation, you're talking a car with probably 300,000 or more miles on it (500k or a bit more for a long-haul trucker as those hours would be almost all Interstate miles, though some might be "at idle" at a VERY VERY LOW load while the trucker takes a nap at a rest stop).
 
 I grant that the bearings in a car/truck engine have to handle a lot higher load/torque/stress - but they're also designed to do so and a LOT heavier duty, with the fact that the bearing seals *ARE* going to leak taken into account and designed to be dealt with through easy addition of more oil to the system.
 
 The two cases are not compareable.
 
 
 The POINT I am making is that in my experience of .... ghods, between places I've worked and my own machines, literally THOUSANDS of computer fans - I've *NEVER* seen a sleeve-bearing fan survive more than 2 years, no matter how fancy of a name it had on it, and I HAVE seen a lot of them that didn't last 6 months.
 Ball-bearing fans I've worked with and owned normally last 5+ years and high-quality ball bearing fans more commonly 10+ years, then there is my extreme case, a Rotron metal-frame fan I bough used almost 30 years ago from a surplus electronics warehouse, have had running the large majority of the time I've owned it, and it's STILL going strong.
It's currently acting as an auxillary intake fan to my main "mining" room.
 
 

You don't have the option of "buy better fans" in a power supply, you're stuck with what the manufacturer puts in there.
I've had lots of fans last years and years - but they were all double ball bearing, mostly Delta (when a Delta Screamer lasts that long, you KNOW it was built right).
 
EVGA can do as they wish legally, the truth is an absolute defence against claims of slander or libel.
 
 PS - I didn't say anything about "change of oil" in a car, I was talking about the need to ADD oil - try owning a car or truck with more than 200k miles on it, you WILL be adding oil or the engine WILL die quite quickly.