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Shaunodon said:

I can only tell you the fun I had having to research which 1000W PSUs not only come with 3* PCIe 6+2 connections, but also which ones actually have the single cables rather than the pigtail connectors.

MSI committed a huge self-own by exclusively supporting a brand that's no longer interested in the consumer level market. They would've been smarter to just follow EVGA by pulling out altogether.

Meanwhile AMD is becoming so popular in Japan that we're literally getting a whole cast of anime themed GPUs.

Fun times we're living in.

*Edit: I meant 4 connections. One of my potential builds needs an extra PCIe connection for a fan controller hub. My GPU does need 3 on it's own still. Even if I go with a different build I still don't want the pigtail connectors.

I wouldn't go that far but I do agree Msi has been making bad decisions for the past few years now.

The thing with Evga is they more or less made and were known for dgpus. They made some other components like high end motherboards but sold very little. It's why 80% of Evgas revenue came from selling Nvidia gpus. The issue is Nvidia has been willing to give their partners less and less % but consumers generally want Nvidia gpus. So while other AIB partners such as Asus, Gigabyte and MSI had sales from other sections such as desktops, laptops, monitors, components such as motherboards and such, Evga really didn't.

So if Msi were so say bye to Nvidia like Evga... The problem is this would kill their gaming laptop business. Because guess what? Radeon has little to no presence in the dgpu laptop field of which they sell millions of. I also wouldn't be surprised if being Nvidia only partner has it's share of perks. So Msi's situation is quite different than evga. And while Nvidia has made quite the amount of fuck ups, once things settle down, it will be interesting to see what the market share is like.

So overall, they are in different situations. But Msi really shouldn't have pulled out of the red team as they are putting their baskets on Nvidia who historically really doesn't see much value with AIB partners.