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Failure rates of Hardware in 2013 - GPU's

Cheap fan bearings. That's probably one of the most popular reasons for XFX RMA. From what I've seen personally. Talking a few years ago though now, on Nvidia products.
 
MjFrosty said:
Power Colour.

Yes, we won't say any more. :D
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Oi! :p i have a Powercolor 7870XT The cooling system is not perfect yet it still runs 1200 / 1600 day in day out @ ~75c.

Its actually a pretty solid GPU, its never complained about running at that speed for hours on end, £176, its far more stable than the much more expensive Gigabyte 7870 WF3 it replaced.

Very good performance to boot.
 
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MjFrosty said:
Cheap fan bearings. That's probably one of the most popular reasons for XFX RMA. From what I've seen personally. Talking a few years ago though now, on Nvidia products.
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Doesnt help that xfx support is practically useless, had the misfortune of having to deal with them concerning a faulty gtx 280.
 
I was lucky with the xfx cards I've owned, neither my pair of 9800gtx's or 6950's developed faults.

Though the tim on the 9800's looked like it had been applied with a spoon :p
 
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I was lucky with the xfx cards I've owned, neither my pair of 9800gtx's or 6950's developed faults.

Though the tim on the 9800's looked like it had been applied with a spoon :p
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Sounds like the stuff that was used on reference 680i motherboard heatsinks. I removed the sinks on my evga a1 rev board to lower temps. The stuff that was on just fell off in lumps, had the consistency of dried glazing putty. I dread to see what sort of rubbish intel use on the ivy/haswell cpu's. Though im still undecided on wether to delid my chip in sig.
 
Out of the last 4 cards I owned two failed, they were both AMD in the form of 5870 and then a 290X and both Sapphire branded.
 
Any idea if the figures count fan failures as overall failures? because the last generation of Radeons seems to have had a massive amount of fan failures/deaths.
 
My last 13 gpu's have all been ati/amd and none have failed including 2 290 series, am i just lucky or are amd better than they get credit for ?
 
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