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Your history of gpu failures?

I’ve had pretty great luck over the years, given how many different cards I’ve been through.

I think I’ve only had 3 go on me.

FX5950 Ultra failed
8800 GT failed
HD7970M failed

Did have an RX480 crap out on me once, but it came back to life with a bios flash.
 
XFX GTX8800 went awry (can't quite recall what happened now...most likely corruption or black screen).

Gigabyte SOC GTX480 started showing signs of graphical corruption after around a year, or maybe a little more.
I managed to get it replaced with a GTX570 SOC, though I did try and wangle a 580, but they weren't having it.

The only other instance is my current card, the 3070 FE. I wouldn't say it's faulty, but I receive what I believe to be power spikes when using it sometimes.
Thankfully, it's a lot less of an occurrence than it was to begin with, I assume due to driver updates. From what I've read, this is quite common with the 3000 series Nvidia GPUs.
I guess it could be my own hardware or maybe some sort of inexplicable incompatibility? Whether it occurs with some of the 4000 series or recent AMD cards, I don't know.
 
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Only had a fan die on an ATI 9800 Pro.
After than nothing died not even volt modded and heavily overclocked cards.
I always keep my cards as cool as possible and I think that running them with low temperatures will extend their lifespan.
I did have gpus die in two of my laptops and those were running very hot.
My current laptop is running something like 74c max on the hot spot with some undervolt and overclock so I’m not worried about that one.
 
I blame CoH for giving my 7600GT visual artifacts before its immenent death after pausing the game for a while, while having something to eat like you do.I believe it was down to unlimited frames in the menu screens which devs are still guilty of this today in other famous examples.

HD7750 was entirely my fault as in hindsight it should have never been switched to a poorly ventilated case once the fans started ramping up and making a racket which it never use to do in the previous case with the better airflow although in my defence, the 8800GT 512MB before it ran with jet engine noise levels when running Cryisis and it survived.It was revived with the "oven trick" method, it passes Firestrike and other demanding games but crashes hard in Heaven, always at the same demanding 1% low spot towards the end of its run.
 
Had a Vega64 just die on me. Just stopped outputting a signal mid gaming. Lit up but outputted nothing. Made me buy my 6800 so not all bad.

Sold it for Parts during the mining boom for WAY too much money.
 
I've never had a GPU fail on me ever.

FX5200 128Mb
FX5200 256Mb
ATi Radeon 9600 (Non Pro)
X800XT PE
8800GTS 320Mb
8800GTS 640MB
8800GT 512Mb
One Exception ATi Radeon X1950XTX - Bought as failed, tried to fix it, didn't work.
ATi Radeon HD2900XT
ATi Radeon HD 4870
ATi Radeon HD 5870
ATi Radeon HD 7970
GTX 1080
GTX 1080 Ti
RTX 2070 Super - Zotac
RTX 2070 Super - Gigabyte
RTX 3080
RTX 3080 Ti
RTX 4080

*Touches wood
 
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I have only ever had two gpu's fail on me, well one as the other was DOA. Both were Radeons, the first was a 5870 which was DOA and then out of stock so I replaced it with a Asus 5850 which turned out to be by far the best overclocking gpu that I have ever had. The one that actually died on me was a Powercolour 3670 which started artifacting even on the desktop for which I got a full refund.
 
Up till recently I've had an AIO fail on an EVGA 980 Ti Hybrid. Replaced it myself as the end of life AIO upgrades were being sold at $50 each at the time.
That 980 Ti is still running perfectly in my brothers gaming system and I've told him I want it back when he finally upgrades.

Then I bought a 7900 XTX which had the bad vapour chamber. Refunded by OCK as I didn't want to wait for a replacement as it was right before the Christmas break.
The RTX 4080 replacement, though working fine with sub 60C temps, actually had a DOA 2nd fan which I only noticed after a week or so. Replaced under RMA but not OCUK that time.
 
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They all still work I think, never had to RMA one, anyway.
7100GS - still works I think, came in a system I bought while drunk from ebay, I think it is probably lying in a cupboard somewhere.
8800GTS & 8800GTX - Can't remember the brands, but both bought used about a year after release (for an absolute bargain price), both still worked last time they were used, won auctions on both, sold the GTS to my friend for what I got it for immediately.
560ti - Bought new - can't remember the brand, might have been an Asus card, but still worked last I saw in a friends machine... he has now replaced it with...
Palit 670 blower - Bought new - Still works in the friends system as far as I know.
Zotac 1060 6gb mini - Bought new - Still works. Should probably give that to my friend as it is just hanging around.
Gigabyte Windforce 2070 - Still working in my current system. Bought B-grade from Overclockers about a month or 2 before the 3000 release for what apparently turned out to be a bargain price for a 70 class compared to current prices for them, although does have a small amount of coil whine when doing certain things, which is why I suspect it was returned & B-grade (box and card were in perfect condition, but opened though so who knows)...
 
My 7950 GX2 died over the course of a morning. From random graphics corruption to a dead card within 90 minutes.
A 980Ti died a slow, painful death - never quite got to the bottom of what was happening with it, but got to the point where it was easier to just replace it.
 
Never had a GPU failure in over 30 years of PC'ing.

I did however have a brand new ATI Sapphire card (can't remember the exact model) back in 2000 that exhibited wavy lines on the display.

Had a hell of a job with that *Scam* company in getting my money back, had to threaten them with getting my CC company involved to get the issue resolved.

Put me off ATI (now AMD of course) ever since.

Never bought anything from them since, except for an FE card of which they're the designated seller in the UK.

Left a bad taste having to buy from them, but had no choice if I wanted the card.
 
100% failure rate here :)

Amd 4650 (I think) probably just needs a new fan, but not sure will ever get round to it given how outdated it is.

AMD 7870 odd artifacting and not booting properly. Though it may be the hard drive but no luck there

Given the 10-14 year span and my poor upkeep that seems pretty good going.
 
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Been a long time, but had a string of failures in the late 00's
8800 Ultra failed - outside warranty
GTX285 failed - replaced with HD5850 by retailer
HD5850 failed - RMA'ed and received replacement

Since then had GTX970 (still runs in my 2nd PC)
RTX380 FE - sold
RTX3090 FE - RMA'ed for coil-whine. So didnt fail, but was RMA'ed to nvidia.
 
My 680Ti kept crashing and later realised the fan had died. I tried to remove the heatsink to replace/fix it, but it had obviously been dead for a while as the thermal pads & paste were like rock, and it ripped off some of the memory chips with it!

Other than that, plain sailing and no other deaths to speak of.
 
willhub said:
I've never had a GPU fail on me ever.

FX5200 128Mb
FX5200 256Mb
ATi Radeon 9600 (Non Pro)
X800XT PE
8800GTS 320Mb
8800GTS 640MB
8800GT 512Mb
One Exception ATi Radeon X1950XTX - Bought as failed, tried to fix it, didn't work.
ATi Radeon HD2900XT
ATi Radeon HD 4870
ATi Radeon HD 5870
ATi Radeon HD 7970
GTX 1080
GTX 1080 Ti
RTX 2070 Super - Zotac
RTX 2070 Super - Gigabyte
RTX 3080
RTX 3080 Ti
RTX 4080

*Touches wood
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I want to be as lucky as you with GPU's.. :p
 
I had three GTX 680's in a row that were DOA. The fourth one is still going.

Then had a 6900 fail on me after a few months, got it replaced eventually, took about 6 months. The replacement is still going.
 
I think this thread would be more useful if people noted the AIB of the cards that failed.

That said, I've been very fortunate over the years - other than a Cirrus Logic card in 1996, I don't think I've ever had one fail on me
 
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