What video cards died on you? ;-p

[Magic Carpet]

1 x 4MB S3 Vision 968 PCI (memory mod didn't work out)
1 x 64MB 3dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP (burnt to ashes, bad OC)
1 x 512MB Gainward Geforce 7800 GS+ AGP (no reason.. just wouldn't post one day)
1 x 2GB ATI Radeon 4870 X2 PCI-E (stopped working after 2 years of heavy use)

Just four here ;-p

 

[ArchAngel777]

280 gtx
460 gtx

 

[Golgatha]

Never have kept a video card past it's warranty expiration or long enough to find out by running it 24/7/365. Still have a Voodoo 4 4500 32MB that's still operational though. Come to think of it, I've never had a video card or CPU completely fail on me, even after 10+ years of service. RAM, power supplies, hard drives, and motherboards have been the least reliable in my experience.

 

[Magic Carpet]

The 4870 died due to heat, I'd say. I kept the fans on minimum. I just hated the noise so much, hehe. My next card must be sub 120W, so I could passively cool it.

 

[PingSpike]

I've never had a video card die on me that I can recall. I had a used ti4200 that sometimes had issues on cold boot when paired with a particular motherboard, but I may have even resolved those with a bios update. They were all in working condition when I sold them or threw them out due to being so old they were worthless.

Aside from cooling fans and hard drives I'm actually not sure I've had any hardware abruptly fail on me actually.

At WORK I had a ton of socket 370 motherboards die of leaking caps and a bunch of generic memory modules croak though.

 

[Screech]

geforce 8400 GS......3 times. Total POS chip; good thing Dell had a good warranty system!

 

[notty22]

ATI Mobility™ Radeon™ 9200 in a Sony Laptop circa 2005. Bricked the laptop.

A 8600gt XFX, capacitors blew, it's a common problem with those cards.

 

[thilanliyan]

None. ;crosses fingers;
My watercooling leaked and spilt coolant on my 8800GTS 640 but it worked fine.

Oh wait, I myself did kill one 6950 by chipping off one of the memory VRMs but I don't count that since I did it myself.

 

[superccs]

Geforce that shipped with my XPS 12" laptop. 3 months out of warranty. FU Dell and Nvidia.

 

[GaiaHunter]

MSI GeForce 6800 nu
MSI Geforce 6800 GT (that was sent to replace the nu)
Powercolor 4850 PCS+ after 1 week of use

 

[Itchrelief]

[For me] They don't die, the fans just get loud and annoying. Had an x850 do this, and a 9800GTX that is just starting to.

I replaced the fan on the x850 but I might not bother on the 9800GTX. The price of the fan is so much relative to the cost of getting a newer, slightly better card by the time they start acting up that I'm thinking of just getting a new one when it gets unbearable.

 

[SlowSpyder]

A BFG GeForce 6800 nu was all that I've ever had die on me.

 

[Powermoloch]

EVGA 7600 GT KO
Visiontek AIW HD3650

 

[ZipSpeed]

GTX 580
GTX 460
GT 240

Received refurbs as replacement for all three and so far so good. Haven't had an AMD/ATI card die yet although the fan on my 5850 grinds once it gets above 35%.

 

[IlllI]

none.

however, some have lived past their usefulness and i eventually dissected them out of curiosity

 

[JBT]

No cards. I had a 4850 that the fan stopped. Reinstalling drivers fixed it . It is getting pretty loud now though.

 

[ctk1981]

Voodoo3 2000 PCI x 2 - case had insufficient cooling and basically roasted two of them. 3dfx was awesome back then, sent a brand new retail box out to me a couple days later.

Visiontek 9800 pro - water cooling failure, peltier set the card on fire when it lost all of its coolant.

Visiontek 4890, started having color issues, basically lost the red channel.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

2x BFG 7900GT - Card never worked right from the day I got it, had to always turn shadows down to medium in games cause they would artifact if set to high, got worse and worse till I RMA'd. Replacement card ended up having the same problems.

1x 9800pro - I broke off a capacitor by accident when installing an aftermarket cooler on the card since the card's fan stopped working.

The two cards in my sig, although they didn't die through any fault of the cards or myself but a bad power supply. Would've still had the 5770 to this day if it hadn't died off.

 

[Via]

Only one: Gainward Geforce 3

It literally blew up. I heard a pop and smelled smoke, and when I opend my PC case it was charred.

I think it was a faulty chip. It wouldn't overclock at all with the included overclocking software (immediate lock-up). But I enjoyed it while I had it.

 

[IGemini]

Never had one that failed. Oldest I have around that's still kicking is an X300SE. All the AGP stuff got sold.

 

[ichy]

8800 GTS died on me about a month ago.

 

[Genx87]

8800 GTS 640 died after 2 years of operation.

 

[Grooveriding]

6800ultra
x1900xt
8800gtx
8800gtx


I find video cards and ram are the two most likely faulty components, at least in my experience.

 

[OVerLoRDI]

9700 pro, I chipped off a VRM when installing an aftermarket heatsink. So it didn't die, I killed it.

8800 gts 640, it has been baked 4 times so far. Still alive currently, but the time between bakings is decreasing...

6950 2gb. Watercooling leaked and doomed the card Expensive lesson to learned. No more cheap plastic hose clamps..

Then on to my bitcoin cards....
2x 5830s fans crapped out.
3x 5870s All started to fail to run at stock clocks
1x 5850, terrible coil whine.
Thankfully all of them were under warranty and got replaced/repaired.

 

[RavenSEAL]

My friend had a GTX590 die on him...well, not die, killed by the nVidia drivers.