How often do Video cards die

[cheesygoldfish]

I always hear about you guys having your vid cards die on you. How often does this happen. I have had many vid cards for many years, no prob. I even overclock them.

How many times have u had ur vid card die on you?

 

[Operandi]

I've had a couple of DOAs, and one or two fan failures over time but I've never had a card that was known to be good actually give up the ghost.

 

[Muse]

Two fans died, no cards.

 

[thescreensavers]

Never yet. No dead HD's No dead CPUS, No dead PSUs, But I have had fans die on me

 

[cheesygoldfish]

I have had 2 dead PSU's

 

[MrCodeDude]

Never had a graphics card die on me.

 

[Bill Brasky]

Originally posted by: thescreensavers
Never yet. No dead HD's No dead CPUS, No dead PSUs, But I have had fans die on me

Same here.

*knocks on wood*

 

[Oyeve]

I have had dozens of vid card and only one has died on me but it was my fault, I had 9800 Pro blow up because I had it in a box with outher card and a capacitor pulled off and I just pushed it back, popped it in my slot, turn on pc, BAM. But in normal use I never had a card die on me. Although, I have occasionally wanted to kill a card!

 

[Missing Ghost]

Me too, cards never died. However I had to replace the fan on one of my 9800pro.

 

[eplebnista]

I've recently had a tnt2 agp card die after 7 years in use in an old compaq slot a 700mhz system.

 

[JEDIYoda]

1 vid card...ati 9600...rma`d it

 

[corkyg]

Never had a vid card die - cooling fans on them, yes, but never the card. That is about 12 cards over 15 years.

 

[mrred]

I had an old radeon9000 die on me. Just stopped working one day and I had to replace it with a GF2-MX

 

[imported_Imp]

Zero for me, but someone in the house had 1 dead 6600. Just turned it off and never came on again apparently. Aside from that, I've only had one REALLY BAD and queaky cooling fan, oh god how I wish that thing died earlier before subjecting me to about 2 years of deafening noise.

 

[SparkyJJO]

I've had 2 cards go bad. Well, one was semi-DOA - it worked but it was bent horribly and the vregs were buzzing like mad. The replacement was fine for awhile but it recently just started acting up too. 11 months old. It is an X1900XT by powercolor - I think the high temps that these things run at is partially at fault.

 

[Rubycon]

Probably many cases of this going wrong.