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Life expectancy of a GPU

Bouton Aide said:
I have a 660 still going strong. :D in my primary machine.
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I had an EVGA version - good card. I just checked my old receipt. I purchased the card the day after release (11th May 2012) no pre-order, just available in stock to buy (£312). Its amazing how shopping has changed in the last 10 years. One could get quite nostalgic about it all......
 
evohicks said:
I've just put together my old Athlon 64 3500+ CPU with a Radeon X850XT platinum edition on to a socket 939 motherboard, it runs fine and had its fair share of use over the years, just not recently. The Radeon was bought in late 2004 I think and I would imagine it's had at least 10 years of solid use.
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That was a great card I loved mine it made BF2 look amazing in the night time tropical island map.
 
My Sapphire Radeon R9 270X 4GB which is bought in 2014 is still working fine. I haven't done any OC yet and that is probably where the life expectancy will come into picture. The Last game i played was Doom Eternal(obviously not on high settings :D) . Just have got hold of a Gigabyte 3070 Gaming OC .
 
Geforce GT7100 (used for a small while, mainly as backup), 8800GTX (used for 4 or 5 years), GTX670 (used for 5 or so years by me - still used by a friend, although not very often), GTX1060 (used for 4 years) & RTX 2070 (still using - about 9 months old and bought as B-stock from here) all still in working order when last used. Basically the risk increases every year. Whether it fails or not will depend some on luck and the quality of the original card.
 
The only card I've ever had fail on me was one of a pair of 7900gt. And I had those things so horribly over volted (using a physical volt mod) and over clocked that it's a wonder they didn't die the first time I ever benched them. It was something like an 70% overclock on the core and 90% on the memory at its peak. The other of the pair was still good for another 5 years until it was binned by whomever I handed it down to. Other than that I've had ATIs 4870 and 6950 as well as a gtx970 all last 5+ years while staying in more or less constant use. In fact the only components I'd say that fail with any regularity are optical disk drives and sometimes hard drives.
 
I brought a Blu-ray drive back when they were about £200 (8-10 years ago?) and it still being used now. I’ve never really had any failures that wasn’t caused by myself, the only thing I can think of was a ocz 60gb ssd.
 
Still running a 780Ti in my work rig.

Not PC GPU specific, but also:

Using a 13 year old laptop as a Plex server
My original N64 still works
My original Gsmecube still works
My original PS2, PS3, and PS4 still work
My original Wii and Wii U still work
(had several xbox 360's fail though, but then they ALL did!)

Some people treat their stuff like **** though. I don't, and aside from build quality and a bit o' luck, I think heat and volts are the main worries for PC GPU's. With the current/ recent crop of cards I think if you don't run an undervolt curve and save a ton of voltage, power and heat for negligible (if any) performance loss, you is an idiot boy.
 
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My dad had a clock that used to work but these days it hasn't. Can we stick to GPUs as from the feedback it's unusual for GPUs to fail if they work for six plus months.
 
Doobedoo said:
I brought a Blu-ray drive back when they were about £200 (8-10 years ago?) and it still being used now. I’ve never really had any failures that wasn’t caused by myself, the only thing I can think of was a ocz 60gb ssd.
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Is that what you use when gaming?
 
Is it possible to get older cards repaired properly ? not in the over etc as there must be a market for it
 
A gaming GPU only needs to last 2 years then you sell it and upgrade. A basic GPU for an office PC should last until the OS stops supporting drivers. So well over 10 years.

Obviously the current situation prevents most of us from upgrading though.
 
I've had a 4870 in a system I built die 4 years after install and another Sapphire Radeon card of some description whose fans died about 3 years after installation. They're definitely more likely to die than other components, but in many ways they're effectively their own computer-inside-a-computer, so that's hardly surprising.

Mean time to failure of 7 years sounds roughly in line with what I've seen.
 
My 5770s are still operational. Sold one when I sold the rest of my previous rig 8 months ago. Have one here alongside a 780ti.

5770s are 11-12 years old. 780ti I had bought used in 2015, so must be roughly 7-8 years old. All of the cards still working fine no issues.

I've had electronics arrive DOA, other than that, they last "forever".
 
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