• Cadeillac
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      24 months ago

      Holy shit, I’m glad I avoided that. Thank you for the info

    • @[email protected]
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      -94 months ago

      Complete lie. The game did not burn gpu’s. That was caused from a GPU manufacturer(EVGA) doing a shit solder job on a batch of gpu’s.

      It’s also the reason they don’t make graphics cards anymore as well.

      • @[email protected]
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        144 months ago

        Cmon man. You call it a complete lie and then proceed to lie through your teeth?

        It affected EVGA GPUs during the beta, EVGA accepted the responsibility and offered to replace the cards. However after the beta the game also bricked Gigabyte and laptop (which I think came straight from Nvidia) GPUs, so the issue wasn’t exclusive to EVGA.

        As for EVGA no longer making cards. Their cards were highly regarded because they made quality cards. The reason they stopped making cards wasn’t because they did a shitty job, the reason was Nvidia. The official reasoning EVGA gave was that Nvidia made it difficult to maintain consistent profit margins, but the rumors are that EVGA saw the 40 Series specs along with the demands Nvidia had for the manufacturers and didn’t want anything to do with that shit. And rightfully so how poorly the 40 series was received.

      • @Zangoose
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        64 months ago

        That isn’t the reason they stopped, they were tired of NVidia’s BS. Nvidia has been slowly trying to phase out 3rd party cards for a while. Since the 20 series they’ve been consistently raising the cost of the GPU that the manufacturer pays compared to the MSRP (i.e. OEMs make basically nothing if they dont upcharge over MSRP), giving OEMs way less time to properly design/test their cooling solutions before launch, and in a few cases only giving them worse binned cards.