EVGA has completed an era

Jacob Freeman, product manager at EVGA, has confirmed that motherboard drives will no longer be included on DVD in the future.

In the light of the above, we will need to look for a flash drive in the motherboard box (eg for the H370 Stinger), as we will find the necessary drivers and additional software on it. The 8GB device with a USB 2.0 interface is rewritable, so users can actually use it for a task other than its original function. Of course, a flash drive comes at a significantly higher cost than a DVD disc - the difference is said to be twenty times, yet EVGA says they won’t be more expensive on boards.

The logic behind the decision, by the way, is quite simple; system builders are increasingly ignoring optical drives, and then there isn’t much use to a DVD drive.

Source: techpowerup.com