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How many GPU's have died on you?

Zero. Always had a good flow air case and never really overclock. Although current card is a 6950 with a 6970 bios.

Had voodoo1's 2's 3's / Nvidia's original geforce to gtx 260's and 5670 3x 5850's and 6850
 
Final8y said:
OK i do have a nvidia 9200 :p for when my gfx cards get bought out before i have replacements, problem is that it cant do 2560x1600.
Actually that nvidia 9200 is dead now that i remember and only used it for about a month, just have not binned it yet..
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Hahahaha at least you're honest mate. I would never have thought you'd have an Nvidia card. I take it you had to lower it to 1920x1080 for playable frames on Crysis 2 with the hi res texture pack?. :D

Did it die of natural causes or did the rest of your AMD parts kill it for being in their presence?. :D
 
J.D said:
Hahahaha at least you're honest mate. I would never have thought you'd have an Nvidia card. I take it you had to lower it to 1920x1080 for playable frames on Crysis 2 with the hi res texture pack?. :D

Did it die of natural causes or did the rest of your AMD parts kill it for being in their presence?. :D
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My bad its was a lesser model but i cant remember what now, skinny with a tiny fan, had a quick look for it but cant find it so i may of chucked it.

I ran COD4 1280x800 with low settings and was getting 30-40 fps.
Used it in between when i sold the 4x3870 to the cards i have now.
I dug it out to use on another PC that i was fixing but the card was dead.
 
Had a Leadtek Winfast PX7900GTX start artifacting after about 3 years and still managed to get it replaced then sold it and bought an XFX GTX280XT and that started playing up a couple of years later after it was out of warranty but XFX let me have an £80 discount of another product so i just got a 9800GTX+ to use the discount up and been on Evga GTX580's ever since with no issues.
 
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Jeez, ive gone through a lot of cards.

1900xtx - x2 crossfire, both failed.
RMA replacement
1950xtx - x2 crossfire, both failed.
RMA replacement
2900xt -x2 crossfire, 1 failed, sold 1 on flea bay.

At this point i gave up on crossfire. I had it during its darkest days.

Then i bought a 4870. It served me well, i ended up selling it for a 4890 though. Then went to a 5850, then a 6950, then a second. All the recent ati cards have been solid for me, but as you can see i had lots of old gen cards fail.
 
7800gtx ram died on me after 1 week... wasnt impressed but got a fast RMA on it.

Thinking back.. i was told my 4870 i sold was artifacting when i sold it but i never saw it personally.
 
8600gt failed on me a few years ago. And old agp card failed also ati but cant remember the name.

I also think one of my current 560ti is gonna pack in soon also. The fans on boot up are making odd sounds.
 
My 4870X2, kept doing this below when loading games, had to exit and restart.

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Never had one die on me but i have had a couple of DOA cards. The first was a Powercolour PCS 4850 and the second was a XFX 3650. Got full refunds on both.
 
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.
 
MumboJumbo said:
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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If people are nominating cards that did not fail in the warranty period then its a bit of a false image. Of course the older cards are failing first because they have been working for many more years possibly in dusty cases they do not care about anymore.

Or else its Six Sigma at work ;)
 
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