I'm interested to know what Jow Forumss experience is with GPUs, specifically how many cards you have owned/used throughout your life and how many have become faulty before you simply replaced them due to old age. I've owned the following GPUs throughout my life, and only 1 has not failed: Radeon X800 - Never failed GeForce 8600GT - never completely failed but had intermittent display issues Radeon 6950 - failed completely after 3 years Radeon 6970 - see the 8600GT Radeon R9 390 - failed after 3 years, literally 1 day before warranty expired
Just purchased a 1080Ti, and I hope hoping, based on my previous experiences, I have a little more luck this time around.
I'm a young lad so I've only owned 2: Radeon 5700 -Ran pretty well from 2010-2015 but was God awful loud. IT was a blower style and I never cleaned it. I traded it to my roommate for a mixer. I eventually did clean it before trading it and took off the heatsink but never reapplied thermal paste. He later said it didn't work and never booted...
GTX 970 - It's my current card and still goes strong. Due to GPU prices I think I'll be stuck with this one for a few years. It still holds it's own in 1080p gaming though.
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Aiden Jackson
I primarily gamed on console so my history is fairly short, only ever had 2 gpus Radeon 6670 - used from 2011-2015, worked well for the entire duration RX 280x - 2015 - now, works well enough, I would replace it but I play games a lot less and dont really have the motive to upgrade a gaming pc
Easton Reed
Gtx 1080 I have right now is still stuffed after it was fixed under warranty for bad solders or some shit Never had a amd card outright fail except for a 6970 but it probably just needed a resold
Blake Rogers
HD 5770 asus cucore - 8 years and still working, it run at 90 - 96°C in most games I played since it was new
James Jenkins
My GTX 970 lasted 3 years almost to the day. Relatively heavy usage but no mining.
Leo Russell
ATI Rage 128 never failed 3yrs ATI Radeon 9800 overclocked never failed ~5 years Nvidia 9800GX2 overclocked, failed after 2 years Nvidia GTX 275 never failed Nvidia GTX 770 overclocked, failed after 3 years. Nvidia GTX 1070 Alice after 1 year at least.
Hunter Richardson
That R9 390 experience hits too close to home.
I bought mine new when the 300 series released and it worked incredibly well albeit hot until a few months ago when it died while I was reading a Wikipedia page. Thanks to MSI, I still had a warranty on it with a few months remaining that they honored.
I sent it to them and waited a month and a half without hearing anything until it showed up at my door.
I don't know if I received a new one or if they just fixed whatever was wrong with mine, but the one I received was incredibly hot out of the box. I reapplied thermal paste and it brought temps down a bit to an acceptable level and it's been working fine ever since.
TL;DR: MSI R9 390 died after 2.5 years, MSI agreed to honor warranty, and I hope my replacement lasts another 2.5 years
>nvidia 6200 didnt fail but was shit >nvidia 8800 gts 320mb failed after 3 years - got it working momentarily after baking in oven but it failed again >radeon 5870 didnt really fail but i think one cap got blown considering all the smoke that came out of the card. still worked though. >nvidia 670 didnt fail in 4 years >nvidia 690 (bought used for cheap) hasnt failed in 2 years
Parker Brown
>gtx 550 ti good but sold because underpowered >hd 5870 that's sum good shit, still got two in crossfire after 5 years >hd5770 died >b403 no problems
Josiah Rodriguez
>3dfx - voodoo 1 fanless worked hella good for 4 years, had to change because outdated. >Riva Tnt 2 fanless - crashed after 2 years >Nvidia 6600 gt - after one year the fan stopped working, had to buy a zalman replacement. The problem was well know on this model >Ati Radeon 4850, 2 in crossfire. Those were my best buy, never failed, never had any problem with the crossfire compatibility, great longevity (and was okay with today games - medium settings) >Nvidia gtx 1060 actual card, no problem atm.
Parker Nelson
>matrox mystique/Voodoo 2 never failed >GeForce2 MX 400 faulty fan, ok with aftermarket "cooler" >Radeon 9700 Pro killed because muh watercooling >GeForce 6600 GT never failed >hd 4870 never failed >hd 7950 faulty fan, ziptied twin 12cm, still alive and kicking
Hudson Brooks
Cant remember what I had before, but those cards never failed. As far as I can remember:
> HD 5770: Started to get noiser after 2 years (around the time the warranty runs out), sold it off on Ebay before shit could hit the fan > HD 7850: failed two months before the warranty ran out, got a brand new replacement (which I sold off on Ebay) > GTX 770: never failed > GTX 1070: no problems so far
As much as I hate Nvidia's scummy tactics, the last two AMD cards shitting themselves around the time warranty runs out left a sour taste in my mouth, especially as those ran on stock voltages with no overclocking.
None of them failed, always worked fine and I still have all of them. What the fuck kind of abuse do you guys put your GPUs through to constantly fuck them up?
Austin Parker
3x Radeon 5830
One completely died after 4-5 years, no boot. One started artifacting after 4-5 years. Remaining one stopped booting a week ago but came back to life after cleaning and reapplying thermal paste, still going after 7 years.
Oliver Lee
670 died Replacement 670 died so they gave me a 770 Grabbed a 970 on sale Grabbed a second 970 on sale Traded them for an r9 fury Each I had for a year, then a year and a half later I picked up a 1080ti. Only the 670s gave me problems but EVGA was great about it.
Luke Robinson
old PCI cards from 1995 which did not require heatsink function just fine even now
Ryder Gray
I owned a 4870 that I was running at 115c without knowing and it still worked fine.
Ethan Walker
I'm a cheap fucker, so until the xp age I just went with whatever was already in my machine. And I'm still a cheap fucker, so I haven't upgraded in years. >9500 GT lasted until I upgraded, now used in a media pc in the living room >650Ti lasted until I upgraded, now used in a pc I gave to someone >660 3GB edition, still being used in current main machine I've never had a gpu die that wasn't already dead on arrival, first 660 I got I had to rma for that.
Austin Parker
I've never had a GPU fail on me yet.
Nathaniel Adams
> Radeon 5670, started showing artefacts after 2 years > Radeon 6970, artefacts/corrupted characters on BIOS after 5 or 6 years > GTX 780, can't use any kind of GPU acceleration in Windows or Linux after 5 years, can only get to a desktop with software rendering in both operating systems
Liam Moore
>Radeon HD4850 Failed in 4 years. Got decent use out of it so not mad.
>Radeon HD5670 5 years. Bought used, was already faulty. Would crash in newer games for no reason. Still works fine in games like dota 2. Hasn't fully failed yet.
>Nvidia GTX 1050ti Bought 1.5 years ago. Fan got dusty and started making a lot of noise 8 months in. Fixed that by oiling it. Been working fine till now otherwise.
Jackson Taylor
>oem gt 530 died after 3 years >GTX 570 never died >powercolor hd 7950 fet of the vcore vrm exploded, removed that, the high side fet and desoldered the choke, ran for 1 more year, then the memory vrm also exploded >xfx RX 470 ran for one year, then sold
Liam Carter
X800 GTO - Died after roughly two - three years of use. 9500 GT - Died after a year, worst card I've ever owned HD 7870 - Died after 5 years of use I've had many more than just these but I can't be bothered to post them all, I generally expect a GPU to last 5 years, both in performance and longevity.
Blake King
Radeon 6870, lasted 6.5 years until the vram died GTX 1080, current card, not even a year old
Landon Bennett
ATI Radeon 4870 1gb - overclocked, used it for mining, never failed in 5 years, still have it in my drawer at home ATI Radeon 5770 - overclocked, used for mining, started fucking up and showing lines and shutting down after two years, failed completely shortly after that GTX 660 - overclocked to just about the maximum speed where it wouldn't crash, started shutting down and displaying lines after about 3 years, I put it back to stock clocks and it was good for another three before failing completely GTX 1070 - didn't OC, just playing some gaymes with it, usually stays below 60C even though it's a single slot card, so far so good
Kevin Rodriguez
Riva 128: never failed Geforce 256: never failed Geforce Ti4600: never failed Geforce 8800GT: never failed Geforce 560Ti: never failed Geforce GTX960: never failed Geforce GTX1060: never failed
Benjamin Morales
Only card I had that died was my GTX 480, it caught fire.
Jacob Rivera
c2q igpu 7950 chugging along to this day it's loud as fuck so i run it at 0.8v and 580mhz-72% perf at like 50W
Carson Taylor
I'm still using a 560Ti from 2011, it's doing pretty well for me
Noah Wright
Asus Gtx 1080 failed after a year and a half. Made asus send me a replacement, and that failed after a week.
Meanwhile, my EVGA 780ti is still chugging along just fine. Really makes you think, huh.
Thomas James
My 9 years old Radeon HD 5870 didnt fail so I still use it today. Replaced the thermal compound recently which makes it run at 70°C again.
Connor Martin
>no-name 8MB gpu (most likely SiS chipset) - was pretty useless, wouldn't work in most computers. >voodoo 3 16MB - I used this for like a year until I finally bought a decent computer. still have it. >geforce 2 mx - came with my pre-built. used it for maybe 2 years. >9700 pro - had it for like 2 years then sold it >6800 gt - didn't die but had problems with dx9 games and corrupting textures >4870 - I replaced it after 2 years thinking it had bad memory when it was actually the main RAM, it's been sat unused in a box since >5850 - bought to replace supposed broken 4870. been used everyday for 6 years. >290x - it died after 1 year (which is why I using the 5850 again and haven't bothered to upgrade because it happened around the time GPU prices went through the roof)
Luis Campbell
-Have at least two decent case fans -Manage temperature and never run the graphics card above 90 or 80 (the less the better) -if the graphics card is oc from the manufacturer and it doesn't manage heat well, underclock it. -clean dust once every 3 months
Ryan Flores
S3 Virge, Voodoo Banshee - don't remember what happened to them. Geforce 2, 4, FX 5200 - I think the fan died on the 4, but it might still be in a box somewhere. Radeon 9550 - probably still works. 8600GT - died after a year or two, later got reflowed, worked for a few months then died again. Radeon 3850 - still works Geforce 240GT - still works GTX 750 ti - current
