Caporegime
I think those GTX 680s served above and beyond the call of duty.
Those LTG's were awesome cards and the guy who bought them was well impressed and they are still going strong.
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I think those GTX 680s served above and beyond the call of duty.
Certainly looks like Nvidia has its quality control nailed. Maybe one reason for the premium??
I feel you could be right. I did some working out and so far we have:
107 nVidia cards working and 6 failed (113 total)
73 AMD cards working and 22 failed (95 total)
Numbers don't lie
EVGA GTX 680 4GB FTW (EVGA Cooler) No issues.
Not sure what you would call the cooler as unlike other 680's its Vapour Chamber cooled not with Heatpipes and on the FTW version only.
EVGA GTX 780Ti SC (Ref Cooler) No issues (thanks to Gregg its already added to list).