eVGA was founded by Andrew Han and Keith Rochford on July 16th, 1999 and is a member of NVIDIA's Select Builder Program. Riva 3D recently interviewed Andrew and this is what he had to say about why eVGA is different from other video card manufacturers:

eVGA is a consumer driven company. We want consumers to know that they are being listened to, and are most important to us. This gives us the opportunity to provide the necessary information to the manufacturer to keep the consumer happy. For example, when our MX card was first being sold, we discovered that many of the boards had slower RAM than they were supposed to, so we replaced all those boards that consumers had already purchased

We're also sharing resources, which allows users to have a much better experience with eVGA cards. We only use NVIDIA reference designs and drivers, but we build in features in the installer. Our installer automatically detects the operating system and installs the proper drivers and features for that OS. We will also be building in an autodetect for the motherboard chipset which will install all the right AGP miniport drivers, etc., to make the card work correctly from the beginning. Next month we will have our motherboard testing lab running where we can test our cards on all motherboards and have our installer do all the things needed to have eVGA cards work on every motherboard.

We also have an online tutorial, forums, and real-time inventory at our web site. We want to always keep the user needs as our main focus.

Similar to NVIDIA's chipsets, eVGA offers graphics cards which are targeted towards a variety of users. From the best-bang-for-the-buck GeForce2 MX to the very expensive, and outrageously powerful GeForce2 Ultra.

Many of our readers already know that the GeForce2 MX is aimed at the budget minded individual. But does that mean that it can't have any new features? On the contrary. This GeForce2 MX supports two features which are not found in any other GeForce or GeForce2 based graphics cards - Digital Vibrance Control and TwinView.

Digital Vibrance Control

Digital Vibrance Contol offers the user the ability to fine tune the display based on lighting conditions. The amount of digital vibrance is controlled by four settings: off, low, medium, and high. These settings are applicable to all visuals including images, 2D, 3D, and video.