News EVGA motherboard owners furious over modern GPU issues — DIY users resort to taping over pins to fix RTX 50 Series problem on Z690 boards

[edzieba]

Right... because this couldn't possibly have anything to do with it at all:

And thus, every other GPU vendor also went keel-up at the same time as EVGA.

Oh, wait...

Can you name a single video card manufacturer who doesn't have their own factories? I'm not aware of any, but maybe you are.

GALAX and Colorful go via Palit, Manli and Zotac via PCPartner, etc. Both will have the actual PCBs fabbed and populated by Pegatron or Foxconn, and will have coolers manufactured by another third party (which is why different unrelated brands will end up with identical or near-identical coolers). Some like MSI may do final assembly themselves, but usually that will be contracted to Foxconn or Pegatron because they already do that anyway.

If you're thinking Asus (for example) have a big factory where raw copper-clad FR4 and Nvidia dies go in one end and GPUS come out the other, that's not how GPU manufacturing - or electronics manufacturing in general - works. This is commonplace, for example your iPhone, iPad or Macbook were very likely manufactured by Foxconn (you can use the first two characters of the SN to look up manufacturing origin).
EVGA were not some special exception in the world of manufacturing.

 

[thestryker]

GALAX and Colorful go via Palit, Manli and Zotac via PCPartner, etc.

You listed a bunch that have their own factories congratulations. You don't seem to grasp what solely relying on contract manufacturing means. EVGA did no part of the manufacturing process in house. The only in house facilities they had were for RMA/repair and engineering.

And thus, every other GPU vendor also went keel-up at the same time as EVGA.

Oh, wait...

Oh wait... You still don't understand manufacturing so it's not surprising you couldn't grasp why that was a bigger problem for them than anyone else.

 

[edzieba]

You listed a bunch that have their own factories congratulations.

GALAX, Colorful, Manli, etc, do not have their own factories for making GPUs.

 

[thestryker]

GALAX, Colorful, Manli, etc, do not have their own factories for making GPUs.

GALAX is owned by Palit and Manli is owned by PC Partner both of whom certainly do have their own factories.

Colorful also absolutely has its own factories.

 

[SyCoREAPER]

Maybe it's Nvidia's fault as much as evga's?

Maybe it's consumers faults for still supporting Nvidia. Goes full Spiderman pointing the finger.