Have mostly been with ATI/AMD over the last few years. I think 8800GT was my last Nvidia card.
Now, I am sure I have been through more graphics cards than most this year, but there really does appear to be something up with the current gen.
Had a 5850 which lasted me ages, and 6950 which did well til the fan started going, but this year I have had in my possession no less than 7 79XX cards.
Of those 7, 5 either died or had some kind of hardware issue.
2 x Asus 7950 DirectCU II -One died with me, other was sold on and died.
2 x HIS reference 7970 - one died within days. The other I DSR'd due to noise (not including that as fault here)
2 X Sapphire 7950 Vapor-x - One would output over hdmi, the other was returned due to stupid voltage lock.
1 x Gigabyte 7970 GHz - This card simply wouldn't overclock AT ALL, but having stock volts of 1.25V meant it was noisier than it needed be at stock 1100MHz. The reason it is going back though is it would frequently cause my pc to hang on restart.
I have been using 2 x Gigabyte GTX 670 windforce for some months now, but was really wanting to go back to AMD as some things I did were just easier on AMD, but I just couldnt stand trying any more hardware.
One gets sick of returning stuff eventually.
Unfortunately I couldn't use both the windforces in SLI on matx setup, so I got an EVGA FTW 670, and both are running fine now with high, but acceptable temps.
The Nvidia cards have just been faultless hardware-wise.
Ok, I did return two reference GTX 670's at one point, but that was simply because of awful cooler.
I know it's not been any particular component in my system that could be to blame for all the ATI card problems, as I have been through different motherboards, cpu's, power supplies, etc.
Had anyone else found more problems than normal with current gen AMD?
Now, I am sure I have been through more graphics cards than most this year, but there really does appear to be something up with the current gen.
Had a 5850 which lasted me ages, and 6950 which did well til the fan started going, but this year I have had in my possession no less than 7 79XX cards.
Of those 7, 5 either died or had some kind of hardware issue.
2 x Asus 7950 DirectCU II -One died with me, other was sold on and died.
2 x HIS reference 7970 - one died within days. The other I DSR'd due to noise (not including that as fault here)
2 X Sapphire 7950 Vapor-x - One would output over hdmi, the other was returned due to stupid voltage lock.
1 x Gigabyte 7970 GHz - This card simply wouldn't overclock AT ALL, but having stock volts of 1.25V meant it was noisier than it needed be at stock 1100MHz. The reason it is going back though is it would frequently cause my pc to hang on restart.
I have been using 2 x Gigabyte GTX 670 windforce for some months now, but was really wanting to go back to AMD as some things I did were just easier on AMD, but I just couldnt stand trying any more hardware.
One gets sick of returning stuff eventually.
Unfortunately I couldn't use both the windforces in SLI on matx setup, so I got an EVGA FTW 670, and both are running fine now with high, but acceptable temps.
The Nvidia cards have just been faultless hardware-wise.
Ok, I did return two reference GTX 670's at one point, but that was simply because of awful cooler.
I know it's not been any particular component in my system that could be to blame for all the ATI card problems, as I have been through different motherboards, cpu's, power supplies, etc.
Had anyone else found more problems than normal with current gen AMD?
). It would just make me consider other things. If I were to just throw an example in there which can cause something very similar. Take for example company X makes RAM and you install it into your computer and doesn't boot. You RMA it and get another set, runs for a week and then stops working. You give up with X and buy from Y, great it works, but a month later it stops working again. RMA and the same problem occurs. You then go buy from Z and it works fine. A year later still working great. You have no idea why, you have even changed motherboards etc... It turns out that the motherboards were defaulting to 1.8V and bricking the RAM from X and Y because it can't cope with more than 1.6V, the RAM from Z was more tolerable and coped with it. That is just an example of what can happen with hardware and it is rarely straight forward. 