jason9755
GregorysBrain
B0baganoosh
DreadNaught503
I think we should sign a petition to sue evga for refusing to update the z790 motherboards for 14th gen cpu's. I recently bought a 14700k and a evga z790 classified and no matter what I do I can't get my 14700k to be detected and I can't update to the latest bios.
You want to spend thousands of dollars and a ton of people's time suing because you're out a few hundred dollars? Good luck with that. It has been clear to everyone in any corner of the tech world (if you just spent the time to look) that they're a company on their way down and there's been no product updates for this. It's a board that never had 14th Gen compatibility. It sucks they're not following through with promises made in the forums, but it's not like it was a secret that the boards don't support 14th Gen.
Actually, this can potentially be a class action lawsuit as an EVGA employee, at the time, promised a BIOS update as the boards can, in fact, accommodate 14th Gen CPUs.
It sure can but lets be realistic here, it would take 1-2 years in court to produce a settlement and the lawyers keep 95%+ of the settlement and we end up with pocket change and still no bios.
Also I do not think EVGA officially advertised (<-this is the important word) that their motherboards would support 14th gen, only forum posts that can be easily dismissed as mis-communication.
Yeah, this was pretty much my point. Also, they confirmed that they were working on it, but the boards were never marketed as 14th gen compatible.
I'm also sure EVGA would argue that they are supporting the board because it (mostly) functions as they originally marketed it and they still provide customer service and a warranty. They just didn't provide support for a new generation of CPUs that didn't exist at the time of launch. Sure, all of us think it would be the proper thing for them to do, but that would require that they have the capability of providing BIOS updates, which as a company, they seem to no longer have. I'm not saying they're not in the wrong here. I'm just saying you'd spend a lot of time and money trying to prove something to a judge and more than likely get nothing in return. If this was a safety issue or a problem with what the board was ever marketed to do, sure, you might have a case. I'm just saying good luck convincing a judge in this case because I don't see it getting far. Then again, if you live in the US, anybody can sue anybody for anything (and they do), so what do I know.