How many GPU's have died on you?

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Well my 480gtx died today and this has now put me in a rather bad position considering I ran sli and the rma will not give me back another 480 it would seem. I also do not want to have to buy another 570, which I presume they would give me in exchange.

So how many have died on you?

So far I've had:

1- 6600GT actually made it to about 4 years old before it died.

2- 8800GTX die on me (which I only discovered today going through my order history was infact an A grade one with 3 months warranty which is not what I paid for from ocuk so no wonder it died just after a year old.)

3- 285GTX died about 13 months old and BFG went bust so no warranty.

4- 480GTX died 8 months old.

 

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Certainly not coincidence haha.

Only ever had a 8800Ultra that died on me, went up in flames!

Nasty, joker do you know what OCUK can do for me with my now dead 480 SE?

 

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I'd say gpu's are by far the least reliable part of a pc. Good to see I'm not alone with stacking up the body count!

Sounds like you should be able to RMA it, contact the shop tomorrow about it.

Yeah I have sent a webnote but I mean, what would they replace it with as I run sli.

 

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Hmm, in that case I don't know. You would likely end up with a 560 or 570 at a guess which doesn't really help you if they don't have any 480s left. (I don't work for the shop for reference).

Edit:
Might get lucky depending on the brand:-
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18350761

There is no way I would accept a 560 and a 570 vs a 480 SE is still not really a fair trade when you consider the ram difference the 480 SE is better.

I guess I'm going to end up with a 580 if that's what gigabyte are exchanging them for and just have to sell one of them and run single card or use the profits to buy another.

 

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Would appear that it's not just my 480gtx that died. I just got a BSOD while using my other 480 .

 

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Run memtest.

I found the cause, when I cleared the cmos earlier today I loaded my overclocking profile but it was one which was unstable.

 

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It is interesting to see that gpu's appear to be getting more and more reliable at least. At least from what people have said you can see there is substantially more failed cards which are of several generations or more ago than newer generations.

Of course you would expect there to be more older generations of cards to have died than newer ones because there are more old generations then there are new and the older cards have had a longer time to kick the bucket. However, I would still have expected it not to have been quite so dominant given that most users on this forum don't tend to keep a gpu longer than 3 years anyway.

It appears that I only currently have 2 gpu's to my name that havn't died. One of them is still sealed up in it's box and the other is the remainder of my SLI in my pc at the moment.

 

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**** ..... I had been reading this thread thinking that I've been lucky.... then playing Skyrim yesterday I had my first game sieze for a few seconds with the milisecond sound loop.... then the screen signal stopped....

and now windows does not recognise the main card in my xfire set-up... I've had to plug the monitor into the 2nd card for output to tell.

Going to have to drain my loop today and remove and work out whether its dead or not.

My 480 in my SLI died after saying that I didn't need to upgrade this generation because 480SLI will beat amd's offerings and probably nvidias too.

 

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I swear that pc parts wait for the warranty to be up before they die. I knew someone who had a pc which packed up the day after his warranty ran out haha.