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Failure rates of Hardware in 2013 - GPU's

I think some of the figures need closer study like the end user (that's us) numbers for GPUs - Geforce 0.8% and Radeon 1.83% not a lot in it.

One I like, 0% failures on Titan GPUs in normal use.

The figure that makes me wonder how well this study was done is why are there identical failure rates for PSUs in AMD and Intel home built systems. I would expect the figures to be similar but not identical unless some sort cuts and assumptions were made with the data.
 
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Didn't MSI have a bad batch of 7950's late 2012/early 2013 too?
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All in all they had two or three bad batches over the course of the 7950's life, one with bad tim application, one with a diode issue and one with a fan issue (may have been related to diode).

To be fair to msi, they handled it extremely well.
 
AMD GPU's are not Voltage locked, this includes the Memory.

Nvidia GPU's are more often than not locked, you have to flash a custom BIOS to get decent levels of over-volting, even then the Memory volts are still locked.

If you limit your customers out of tweaking, your bound to have less failure rates. This also explains why the FirePro Cards have about the same failure rates as the Quadro Cards. Both are locked.
with the unlocked nature of AMD cards you get people like LtMatt over doing it on the Volts. :p

If i remember rightly you killed your GTX Titan with a custom BIOS, did you not, Greg? :D
 
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That won't push the percentage up like that, the number of customers who overvolt let alone significantly overvolt will be tiny and the number of that tiny percent that fail will be an even smaller percent of the whole.
 
Rroff said:
That won't push the percentage up like that, the number of customers who overvolt let alone significantly overvolt will be tiny and the number of that tiny percent that fail will be an even smaller percent of the whole.
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I think you would be surprised at how many hear about overclocking and then get it horribly wrong trying.
Being completely unlocked AMD GPU's have little defence against nOOb PEBAK, its to easy to kill them if you don't know what your doing, or worse, if you have no electronic sympathy.

CCC doesn't help, with 1450 / 2000 available right there in the vendors driver control panel.
 
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humbug said:
AMD GPU's are not Voltage locked, this includes the Memory.

Nvidia GPU's are more often than not locked, you have to flash a custom BIOS to get decent levels of over-volting, even then the Memory volts are still locked.

If you limit your customers out of tweaking, your bound to have less failure rates. This also explains why the FirePro Cards have about the same failure rates as the Quadro Cards. Both are locked.
with the unlocked nature of AMD cards you get people like LtMatt over doing it on the Volts. :p
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Whilst you may be correct, it does show that nVidia know how to maximize profit. Sure it is boring for the tiny % of people like me who have a small ***** and want to sit high on bench threads but the majority of people who actually bother to overclock/over volt their cards will be very small.

If i remember rightly you killed your GTX Titan with a custom BIOS, did you not, Greg? :D
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I am glad you find it amusing :rolleyes:
 
Nice find! Always good to.get some numbers every now and then, it looks.like,.other than having an amd card. The most likley component to fail is the motherboardnd here was me thinking it would have been the ssd lol. Okay to be fair shouldnt be that much of a suprise, with the ammount of added features that gets bundled into mobos these days, still an interesting find, keep it up ;-) lol
 
Please don't turn this into a squabble. R2 series cards have had an awful failure rate. Why that is - is for vendors and distributors to possibly comment on. But the fact remains they have.

One product can have a huge impact on statistics, reminds me of the Sandforce issues on Vertex 2 SSDS. was 10s of figures over competing products.
 
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Whilst you may be correct, it does show that nVidia know how to maximize profit. Sure it is boring for the tiny % of people like me who have a small ***** and want to sit high on bench threads but the majority of people who actually bother to overclock/over volt their cards will be very small.
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I'm not disputing that, i hope AMD never learn how to maximize profits in this way.

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I am glad you find it amusing :rolleyes:
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Sense of humour fail, Greg.
 
I have only had one GPU die (Titan), 3 mobo's, one CPU (P4 with stupid volts) and several HDD's. Earlier HDD's seemed to last much longer but even now, I have had a warning about my 500GB back up drive is failing. Luckily I bought a 2TB drive to replace it from the MM (Cheers Badboy).
 
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