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How many GPU's have died on you?

An SLI of 9800gt 's both over clocked and hitting over 85 degrees while gaming :P
one died, so I over clocked the remaining one a little further to make up for it, it then refused to work after a month or so!
 
Only my very first videocard died on me, too long ago what it was. Everything after it was working just fine till it was sold/thrown away Nvidia MX440, MX440SE, 6800GT, 8800. Technically it wasn't the GPU that didn't function but the VRAM, GPU's are pretty much the same as CPU's.. besides overheating there isn't much that can happen and they got too safeguards nowadays that prevent that from happening.

The AMD Radeon Mobility 5850 in my laptop was giving me some weird red glowing pixels sometimes on the laptop screen with jpg's etc. Send it in for repairs and got my laptop returned to me with a 5870 in it :).. still got the same problem sometimes but a reboot tends to fix it and I'm not sending this free graphics upgrade back ;)
 
Had 4 ati cards die on me withing 6 months each. Never had a nvidia card die on me. Now I refuse to touch ati cards for the above reason and poor drivers.
 
Two cards I can recall offhand.

Firstly an ATi 9800xt. Damn I loved that card, came with HL2. It didn't die a natural death, was down to 'user error'. Yeah I decided to change the cooler and managed to rip the memory chips off the circuit board. Damn you double sided sticky tape! :p

Second one, an XFX 5870, this one was never stable and eventually got RMA'd.
 
2, both of them were 8800gtx's, the second one was a replacement for the first after it died, then the replacement proceeded to kick the bucket 6 months later. I avoided Nvidia for a while after that but ended up going back to them for a 460gtx at one point and it was a cracking card that still works fine in another PC. Thankfully they're the only hardware that's ever died on me.
 
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Had a Nvidia 7900 GT die on me back in day whilst running SLI and got a 7950GT in return which I couldn't get SLI'd with the other card. Put me off SLI/Crossfire for fear of this sort of this happening again.

Also had the graphics chip burn up on my last laptop 2 weeks after a years warranty was up, and they wanted to charge me 80% of the original cost of the laptop for a replacement mobo... Was much cheaper to buy a new laptop and sell the screen/keyboard/HDD/memory for parts on ebay! HP are buggers like that...
 
It depends what you mean by 'die' - I've never had a card die or just stopped working but near all of the cards I've owned going back to the 3DFX Voodoo 1 have been crippled by artifacting that gets so bad it makes the card unusable.

So far I've got through the following

2x 3DFX Voodoo 1's
Geforce 2 MX220
Geforce Ti 200
Savage S3
Geforce 6800GT
Radeon 9600 Pro
Geforce 6600GT
Radedon X1900XT
Geforce 8800GT

If I didn't know any better I would say video card companies are designing their cards to fail it really is a poor showing given my system CPU and ram have always been ultra reliable. After the 8800GT kicked the bucket (again artifacting was terrible) I just gave up on Nvidia cards I went bought an ATI Radeon HD5770 I've had it for over two years and its going strong although it's now entering the time of its life I expect it to fail.
 
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