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Why do Graphics Cards fail so much?

Backwards Man

Backwards Man

Backwards Man

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My question is why is it the only component that has ever turned faulty in my custom built computers is the Graphics Card?

My home PC I use now was built 3 years ago, and in that time I have gone through 3 6800GTs, with each failing within 8months to a year of use (luckily still within their warranties) and the most recent one last week.

WHY
 
Sounds like you have been very unlucky but a graphics card is probably the single most complicated component in a modern PC (certainly in terms of transistors) so it isn't really a huge surprise if they fail more often.
 
I would say HDD's+RAM are a lot less reliable. I haven't had a graphics card break in the last 2 years, however I've had two hard drives, and two sticks of RAM fail on me :(
 
It a hit and miss for all parts in a pc. For me i had a 7year old maxtor running till last year and it never missed a beat. GPU again havent failed on me yet. It just pot luck if one breaks on you.
 
I've never had a failed GPU, the only thing that failed on me is an old DFI 865PE mobo and I think my P5N-E is failing too and possibly my HDD.
 
I've only had a few things fail or be faulty in the past year or so.

2 Gigabyte DS4 motherboards
4 sticks of Crucial memory
1 X1900XT graphics card
1 Tagan PSU
1 Maxtor hard drive

:(
 
It's hit and miss, really.

All components in a computer have the probability of failing, I seem to have bad luck with hard drives and dead sectors. My xps has had the 7950gtx replaced 4 times now :D:eek:
 
I've never had a graphics card die on me, and been overclocking them since Geforce 2 days :)

Looks like bad luck or not enough cooling.
 
Backwards Man said:
They all just suddenly came up with random colours all over the screen, and from then on it was hit or miss whether the computer started up with or without them.
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Had the same problem with 3 6600GT's in the end I discovered it was a faulty mobo.

Try another motherboard.
 
My x1900xt-x died on me about 4 to 5 months ago :mad: (memory problem)

But that was the only GPU card i had die on me out of the 12 GPU cards i have owned..
 
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Geforce Ti4200 died after 11months
6800GT died after 3months
6800le DOA lol
x1800xt died after 15months
8800GTS died after 5months

Thats all my dead hardware in graphics card land so far :D
 
Apart from my current problems with the 8800GTX - which may or may not be hardware - I've only ever blown up one card: a Voodoo5 5500 (in the days when they still cost about £200 each). That was mostly my fault: I'd fitted BlOrbs to the GPUs, but not properly, and after several months at 186MHz (those were the days) one of them blew up. My old GF3 was going fine up until a couple of months ago when I removed it.
 
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