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Your history of gpu failures?

Cyber-Mav

Cyber-Mav

Cyber-Mav

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My luck with high end cards has always been iffy. All my gpu failires in the past have been high end cards, e.g gtx 480, x1900xt, gtx780, 6800ultra.
Iv never had crappy cards fail e.g gt730, hd2400 and few others.

What sort of cards have failed for you guys the most low end or high end?
 
I've had a bad time of it recently (and this is just in the last few years..).

My 1660 super had a fan totally die so had to get a replacement

I bought a 3050 but it had to go back as it kept crashing at idle and ***** up my PC. This was a known problem with these. Seems to have doggy voltage regulation at idle. Was definitely the card as it replaced a 1050ti and the PC was flawless before and after the 3050 was in it. This just went back for a refund.

My 3070 fans started grinding so had to get a replacement.



To be honest, everything is built like **** these days and never lasts.

I have a hard time believing the tiny RMA percentages given out for GPUs . In my experience they are frequently troublesome.
 
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Never had any graphics card fail for over 3 decades of pc use.. only one I remember getting a fault was a ATI 9800 pro the fan fell off it one day and needed replacing as something broke on the fan and pc shutdown right after. Card works to this day and with the same new fan replacement. Apart from that never had an issue with graphics cards.

Also one motherboard in all the time an ASUS board that would never post suddenly and some woman's voice would come out of the speaker stating some error with cpu but turned out to be the motherboard had failed and cpu was fine.

Hard drives from seagate and hitachi.. also had some issues with them with the clicks of death or locking up and needed hacking with a serial connection to them to unlock them because the SMART data area filled up or corrupted and needed clearing with a bunch of commands over a terminal.

That's really only issues I have had with pc components over the years with my own personal builds.
 
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Got through a few 7800GTXs. Can’t remember what the problem was, but they’d fail and artefact after a few days/weeks. Other than those, never had any other fail.
 
i dont remember a single gpu of mine every dying itself, i killed a couple back in the early days of watercooling systems and i had a 970 from 2014-2020 until it got replaced, it still works fine its just useless for newer games
 
GeForce4 MX 440 - survived
BFG 7900GT - overheated VRAM => RMA
BFG 8800GT - overheated VRAM => RMA
BFG 9800GT - overheated VRAM => BFG out of business
Sapphire 5870 - constant driver crashes
Gigabyte WindForce 780 - terrible coil whine => Refunded
Gainward Phantom 780 - survived
ASUS Strix 1080 - survived
 
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Never had one fail. Had a 5830 XFX that would get green pixel corruption on the desktop but fixed that. It was something to do with the 2D/3D clock speed being wrong.
 
5800ULTRA, pretty sure something melted
7800GTX, yup died a death cause they were rubbish
GTX 480 - used the infamous, turn the fan off drivers and something melted , got a replacement and it was `ok` for a Thermi
6700XT had a whiny fan bearing (so not really a failure?)
 
Asus Ti4200 - the fan actually crumbled after about 8 months. RMA'd, they were no longer sold so got a refund.
Leadtek FX 5900 LX - the LXs overclocked like champs, this one did as well, until one day it literally just went pop and never ever POST'd again.

So no graphics card hardware failures since the mid 00's and i've just worked out i've had 13(!) cards since then. I hope I haven't jinxed it!

NB. Only one motherboard partially die. An Asus P35 board, network port went kaput.
 
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The only graphics card I've owned from new that failed on me is a HD 4870. Purchased it in mid-2009, used it as my main card for four years and it died (completely, black screen) in mid-2013. Which, in hindsight, doesn't seem surprising to me, given that it was a reference design that idled in the 70s. To be honest, it was well overdue for an upgrade anyway by that point, so I wasn't too upset. I replaced it with a cheap HD 7850 and it's still one of my favourite upgrades. Double the performance, much lower power draw and near silence. It was bliss.

I've had a few used cards either arrive faulty or die day one, but they don't really count and I was refunded for all of them.
 
I think since I joined PC building over 25 years ago, I think I've only ever had one GPU go bad. The AMD HD7950 3GB, and that was due to the design of the card being unable to cope with the added weight of the cooler and fans, eventually causing GPU sag on both the PCIe slot (over a period of many years) and on the card itself, resulting in the GPU coming off of the board in a way that I can't repair/fix it. Every other GPU before and since has been rock solid; Matrox Mystique (Original) PCI, Matrox Marvel G200 (with DVD and RAM Module) PCI, ATi 8500, ATi 9600 Pro, ATi 9800, ATi X850XT PE, AMD HD3870, AMD HD7950 (The one that died), AMD HD7750, AMD RX580 and now the AMD RX7900 XTX.
 
The only card I ever had fail was a Nvidia 8800gt/gts (not sure which) it only lasted around a year, maybe less. I was gutted about that one if I'm honest.

I had a pair of sapphire 6950's and I think the thermostats or whatever might have died because the fans would intermittently speed up to 100% which gradually over time got worse and was annoying, but other than the noise of the fans the cards otherwise worked fine.
 
Too many.

Radeon X1950 AGP - while it still runs to this day it often crashed in games or caused graphical corruption. Pretty sure it was a bad mount or something as when I took the side off my case and pointed a desk fan at it the problems went away (wasn't an airflow problem as it happened with different cases that exhibited no issues with other cards).

GTX570 - DVI ports failed one after the other. Refunded.

GTX560 - DVI ports failed one after the other. A friend's card, out of warranty.

GTX680 - DVI port failed. RMA replacement.

GTX780 - intermittent crashes from day one. Eventually replaced via RMA with a GTX970.

Cards without issues:

9800 Pro 128MB
6800 GT
HD4870 512MB
980 Ti
1080 Ti
6800 XT (so far)
 
2000 - ELSA GLADIAC Nvidia GeForce 2 GTS 32MB, fan on the GPU stopped working, carried on using it without one for about 6 months, then threw it away because it was crap card anyway, when I got a 3DFX Voodoo 5 5500 64MB.
2006 - HIS ATI Radeon X1900XTX IceQ 3 Turbo 512MB - artifacts upon installing it, RMA it with OcUK and got a like for like replacement.
 
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One. A KFA2 GTX780 6GB that refused to cold boot first thing in the morning. A little bit of Drama getting a suitable replacement which I actually documented here! https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/t...0-4gb-hof-as-substitute-for-6gb-780.18692918/ but the replacement 980 is still running in my Son's machine without any trouble.

Every other GPU has worked a treat, even since my Diamond Stealth 64 with...512Kb of VRAM I think?
 
Can't remember if it was XFX or Leadtek now but I bought a nVidia 5900 Ultra which instantly blew up when powered on - returned it for a Gainward Golden Sample 5900XT which was probably a much better buy as it was cheaper and overclocked like a monster (something like +40% core, +50% memory) - making up for some of the woeful performance of that generation.

Asus 8800GT which was actually a 8800GS core despite having the GT firmware and PCB - had a bit of hassle but eventually got it replaced.

Aside from that the only other failures have been cheaper cards like 8500GTs which was probably my fault for clocking the **** out of them - had the rather obscure 3D Marks 06 WR for 8500GT SLI for awhile until someone from Asus came along with cherry picked cores and memory that wasn't available on retail cards :(

EDIT: Completely forgot I actually did overclock/volt one to death - for some reason thought it had just died itself from years of abuse.

Rroff said:
Had a pair of 8500GTs for a couple of machines I was using for a project - once done stuck them on an SLI board and overclocked them... 765MHz core, 445MHz memory from a stock 459/400. Held 3D Marks 06 WR for the 8500GT for awhile until someone from Asus beat it using cherry picked memory memory configuration not available to the public
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A few years later did a suicide shot on one and got through 3D Marks 06 at 800MHz before crashing and it booted up in 4bit colour after that LOL.
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never had a gpu die on me, but have bricked a couple, last one was last yr on a vega 64. bricked one iof the HD cards as well trying to turn it into a higher model, but name escapes atm, joys of getting old :cry: :cry:
 
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