well if you think about how often does a cpu fail? yet video cards fail quite a bit in comparison. still no reason not to oc though cause if its going to fail then its going to fail and it will typically be covered in the warranty.
Prone to failure? Maybe if you over volt the heck out of it, and/or have it passing tempuratures it's not suppose to be (e.g. not watching it and stress testing it yourself to make sure it wont overheat while gaming). Otherwise GPU's have the same built in fail-safe technologies CPU's do. They will throttle back if they get too hot etc. In my own personal belief, only way for it to fail is if you let it. Of course there are freak failures, of cards failing shortly after being bought etc. Tho I have never heard of a video card dying just because they bumped up the clocks without touching the volts. In my book, factory volt overclocks are a must! Just because the manufacture set the core clock to 800 MHz, doesn't mean your card won't do 900/950 on the same factory volts. At least 5-10 FPS in all games at no additional rate of failure. That my friend is called a win no matter how you look at it. :thumbsup:
and that actually makes sense to you?
