Anyone Have a 6800 Die Yet?

[ZobarStyl]

No one said "don't overclock," what we said was "if you overclock and ruin your hardware, take responsibility for your actions." If nothing was wrong with the hardware at stock speeds and it fails when you O/C it you have no one to blame but yourself and you're taking advantage of the companies when you RMA it. And on a side note, every person I've known with a PNY has had problems with it right out of the box at stock speeds, so you might want to think twice about the longevity of your GT under such conditions. My 2 cents, take it or leave it.

 

[kki000]

So i dont understand, im fu(ked if i run this at stock speeds, and im an a$$hole if i overclock.. guess im just fu(ked.

If this is a thread about dying 6800, arent we better served talking about ways to keep cards cool and overclock safely?

Does the video card companies really need u guys lecturing ppl on warranty etiqute and overclocking. Half of the companies use overclocking as a selling feature, its turned into marketing for cryin out loud.

If bfg n pny were having such rampant abuse of warranty, dont u think they'd be smart enuff to pull it? And the idea of warranty abuses raisng prices doesnt fly.
Pny and bfg as the companies with lifetiime warranties leave themselves most open for abuse right? Well they offer some of the least expensive cards (sug retail anway) of the 6800s.

thnx for the heads up on the pny, guess i'll soon be dealin with their crappy cust svce. These friends of yours, was this a 6800 card we're talkin about?

K

 

[nRollo]

So i dont understand, im fu(ked if i run this at stock speeds, and im an a$$hole if i overclock.. guess im just fu(ked.

No, just obtuse and immoral, apparently.

1. Run your card a few weeks at stock speeds, if it fails, RMA it honorably
2. If you want to OC, do so knowing you're voiding the warranty, and eat the loss.

Tough concepts. :roll:

Ive never had an oc part fail, ever. This is going back to pentium2 and tnt1.

If you oc it right, no one gets hurt... everyones happy.

While I'm sure the .00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% of OCd computer parts you actually have knowledge of represents a statistically significant percentage of OCd parts, I'd still have to say that just because you've OCd 5 video cards doesn't mean the other 80 million will act the same. :roll:

I say again, do these people have parents?

 

[ZobarStyl]

No, none of the PNY problems I've seen were with 6800 series cards, but it doesn't mean I think PNY's quality has improved much if any. The problems I've seen with PNY's so far were a 5200 that was prone to pretty much any mechanical failure it could think of (the fan would scream like a dying bat at random, and when it was working fine it still overheated constantly) and a 4400 that, though hardware-stable, caused XP to crash without fail and forced my friend to use Win2000 instead (we tried XP Pro about 8 times to no avail). I've just seen nothing but bad things come of PNY cards otherwise I would've jumped on the CompUSA deal on them a few weeks back. I'm personally waiting on a LeadTek 6800, I've never had a single problem with my current card in 2 years of running, hardware or software. Basically, I'm not so much trying to say you are boned, but you do get what you pay for.

 

[ronnn]

Originally posted by: Axon
This is obviously more cheating on the part of ATi. They somehow got to Anand's comp and destroyed the card.

I suspect ninjas. Good thing they didn't flip out and kill the whole place.

:laugh: