tresnugget
Am I the only one who realizes that the Z30 Dark and X299 Dark are two of the best overclocking motherboards on the market? The x58s were great, but come on! The Asus Apex boards are close but spec wise the EVGA boards are better, and this is coming from a z390 apex owner. I needed more USB 3.1 so I went with the Apex. Do they have pretty lights? No. But they're minimalist and get the job done better than any other product on the market.

wmmills

Nereus

wmmills

Nereus

Bruno747
Also looking at the glass door stuff, I wonder if it isn't management like this that caused them to loose the kick-ass Mobo designers that all left around the end of x58.

Yeah I do recall some crap happening way back then. I think it was Shansmi (spelling?) was one person in particular that was a big loss to EVGA, and I believe it was due to disagreements with management at the time. The X58 platform was probably the best to date in terms of 'it just works'. Great BIOS work.

bee144
New support hours, "Starting June 3rd, 2019 EVGA's global customer service office located in California, United States will be changing its hours of operation. The new hours of operation will be from 6AM PT to 10PM PT, 7 days a week. All support requests outside of this time will be processed in the order they are received the following business day. We appreciate your understanding and look forward to supporting all of your EVGA products. Thank You, EVGA Management""

Did they ever work weekends and holidays 24/7? The new hours are 16 hours a day, 7 days a week - that's pretty damn good imho. Many businesses run 9-5 Mon-Fri only.
But yeah.. amazing what a difference management can make. Look at FrozenCPU for an extreme example, lol.

You mean Shamino Nereus??!? Or Shane, the web guy?

I remember the name Shamino too, but I think it was Shansmi or something like that - he did a lot of the BIOS work back then. ..or maybe it was Shamino. Whatever, it was definitely a loss to EVGA.
 
 

Yeah that was shamino who was lured away after the x58's etc... def was a big hit at the time for evga. Shane left too and the debacle with Unwinder happened not too long after that also, a lot of good people have exited. 

z999z3mystorys
I'm seeing a few former EVGA employees old posts around, and they have the title EVGA Alumni. Is that new, or has it been around a bit? I could see that title being created due to the restructuring, but don't know for sure it wasn't there for awhile before.

EVGATech_AdamB

ty_ger07
I noticed it also. I made a comment about it, but no one replied. I am quite sure that there weren't "EVGA Alumni" previously and that the title is related to them being recently laid off.

I started that a while ago actually. In August of last year I believe. I noticed that some old accounts were still getting PM'ed with no response so I added that to hopefully prevent confusion.

ty_ger07

EVGATech_AdamB

ty_ger07
I noticed it also. I made a comment about it, but no one replied. I am quite sure that there weren't "EVGA Alumni" previously and that the title is related to them being recently laid off.

I started that a while ago actually. In August of last year I believe. I noticed that some old accounts were still getting PM'ed with no response so I added that to hopefully prevent confusion.

You don't expect them to return? So, they aren't laid off? They are fired?

bee144

ty_ger07

EVGATech_AdamB

ty_ger07
I noticed it also. I made a comment about it, but no one replied. I am quite sure that there weren't "EVGA Alumni" previously and that the title is related to them being recently laid off.

I started that a while ago actually. In August of last year I believe. I noticed that some old accounts were still getting PM'ed with no response so I added that to hopefully prevent confusion.

You don't expect them to return? So, they aren't laid off? They are fired?

I think you're confused. Those are old EVGA employee accounts (aka no longer with the company). Their titles on the forum were changed to alumni as a nice way of saying they no longer work for EVGA and do not expect a reply from them if you message them.

Nereus
 
Alumni means a former member of a group, company or organization, which is exactly what they are, regardless of whether they are returning or not. If they return, their title would change accordingly.
 
 

ty_ger07

Nereus
 
Alumni means a former member of a group, company or organization, which is exactly what they are, regardless of whether they are returning or not. If they return, their title would change accordingly.
 
 

Fair enough. But, EVGA said that they are doing so in order to prevent people contacting them by mistake and never getting a response. Which, seems to me that EVGA doesn't expect them to ever return. Sad.

You typically don't refer to someone who is laid off as a "former employee" until the maximum layoff period has expired or until that employee decides to be employed elsewhere. Until then, the employee collects unemployment and is expected to return to their position once business improves.

Brad_Hawthorne

Nereus
Alumni means a former member of a group, company or organization, which is exactly what they are, regardless of whether they are returning or not. If they return, their title would change accordingly.

Alumni happens after a graduation. So, did they graduate into unemployment while wearing caps and gowns? Someone is a word ninja. 

dhall243
Lets all be honest here, as much as I like EVGA's products, EVGA needs to stick with what they excel in GPUs, MOBOs, and PSUs. I would also drop everything but the Dark line of motherboards, the market is different now then how it was 5 years ago, everyone except the people who buy products for XOC are buying pretty boards with plastic covers and unicorn vomit. There's to many other companies making Keyboards and Mice to compete with, I honestly didn't know that an EVGA keyboard was a thing until about a month ago. Im sure case manufactures would team up with EVGA to make a case that offered specific EVGA features. Bring back stuff like EVBot, keep making products like the powerlink. I feel sorry for the employees of EVGA, Ive worked those 16 hour shifts and Ive worked 7 days a week sometime both combined, its not fun, you feel like jumping off a bridge at the end of the day and hope Moses parts the water when you get close.

bee144

tresnugget
Am I the only one who realizes that the Z30 Dark and X299 Dark are two of the best overclocking motherboards on the market? The x58s were great, but come on! The Asus Apex boards are close but spec wise the EVGA boards are better, and this is coming from a z390 apex owner. I needed more USB 3.1 so I went with the Apex. Do they have pretty lights? No. But they're minimalist and get the job done better than any other product on the market.

but 99% of buyers, even high end boards, do not overclock to the extreme that an Apex or Dark board offers. As a result, you're better off going with the XI Extreme or some other mobo for the 99%.
 
EVGA doesn't make mobos for the masses anymore. Tin and Kingpin make kick ass mobos for OCing but not daily driving.