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What video cards died on you? ;-p

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I've had:

1. ATI Mach 32
2. Voodoo 1
3. Voodoo 2
4. ATI Xpress
5. nV MX400
6. Geforce 6800GS
7. Geforce 8800GTS
8. ATI 4850
9. AMD 5850


Not one has ever died on me.
 
3dfx Voodoo3 2000 is the only one that has actually stopped working.

A few cards have been replaced after cooler fans went bad.
 
The only video card I ever had die on me was a BFG 6800GT. That had a lifetime warranty and I decided I'd hold onto it until I was sure they would run out of stock on the 6800s and would have to upgrade me.

Yeah, that didn't work out -- I waited too long and BFG went under. D:
 
asus gtx560 ti direct cu

Did a very common overclock i forgot the settings but i didn't get extreme i think perhaps that cooler design didn't properly cool off some vrms or something cause the oc did not last long till my card artifacted and resetting it simply did not fix it.

This evga gtx570 is pissing me off too it won't hit 786 core 2100 memory at .975 vcore without crashing BF3...very popular and common setting,tempted to swap it for a 6950.
 
leadtek 6600GT 128MB - fan stopped working so it kept overheating. got a 8800GTS 320MB to replace it.

evga 8800GTS 320MB - kept showing artifacts, until the dvi ports stopped working. evga replaced it with the 640MB version for free.

8600GTm 128MB - failed after a few years of use. got it fixed for free through the recall. works fine, but sold it.
 
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I had a 9800 pro that was giving me problems (can't remember what, but definitely acted up while gaming). I had a PRP warranty (Product Replacement Plan) from CompUSA, so I brought it back and got a X1950XTX (or was it X1900XTX) since they stopped selling the 9800Pro by then. I just had to pay the $50 difference (9800Pro was $350 and the X1950XTX was $400). Glad that I had bought the PRP warranty on the 9800Pro, I spent the extra $70 or so for the PRP warranty on the X 1950XTX.

The X1950XTX was fine for a while, but then starting giving me ?artifacts? while gaming (there would be columns going from ground to sky while playing BF2, they weren't solid (you could fly through them), but they looked like whatever ?texture? was used on that section of ground (rock, water, grass, etc...)). By that time CompUSA was closing their NY brick and mortar stores, so I had to go into Manhattan to get the replacement card. They gave me a $400 store credit (everything but the $70 I paid for the second PRP), and I bought a 640MB BFG 8800GTS for $500. They offered me another PRP, but since they were closing down and the BFG had a lifetime warranty, I declined. The 8800GTS still works fine today, about 5 years later. But, it's time for an upgrade (BFBC2 worked fine, BF3 not so much....). Technically, that was the best $108 I ever spent on a video card (%8 NY sales tax).

I also had a Diamond Viper X1650 Pro that wouldn't do the stock clocks out of the box (was running much slower speeds, even when in 3D mode). I went back and forth with Diamond, and they finally sent me a card that performed as advertised. I put it in my daughters system and then it stopped working a few months later (will display desktop / 2d stuff, but won't do any 3d stuff).
 
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Magic Carpet said:
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
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OMG never.. Never in my life,, all the way to Trident Hercules days in 80's video cards havent died,,, except for the 460 1GB I set on fire like a idiot by touching metal piece with card, fire and blown up... I mean every card I have had has never died,,, Matrox Milleinium 1 ,, Hercules 2d/3d banshee card, 80's trident video card.... x800 ,, geforce Riva TNT ,,geforce 2 geforce 5950 ultra geforce 5600 geforce 8800 GT ,,, none died on me. CPU has never died on me, and hard drive has never died on me, since I have them properly installed inside the Thermaltake iCage ,, 25c avg on 3 drives , screwed tightly... 🙂
 
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OMG never.. Never in my life,, all the way to Trident Hercules days in 80's video cards havent died,,, except for the 460 1GB I set on fire like a idiot by touching metal piece with card, fire and blown up... I mean every card I have had has never died,,, Matrox Milleinium 1 ,, Hercules 2d/3d banshee card, 80's trident video card.... x800 ,, geforce Riva TNT ,,geforce 2 geforce 5950 ultra geforce 5600 geforce 8800 GT ,,, none died on me. CPU has never died on me, and hard drive has never died on me, since I have them properly installed inside the Thermaltake iCage ,, 25c avg on 3 drives , screwed tightly... 🙂
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Only hard drive that failed on me was a 300gb seagate that i had put into a hp vectra vl420 being my second computer coming from a celeron and the last i owned before i built my first gamer back in early 2006:awe:

Hard drive lasted about 2 weeks then it failed just failed to be recognized by the bios and failed to boot.

Second hard drive to ever give me issues was a 1tb seagate the first generation i tossed the drive away cause it just had so many errors and gave me all kinds of hell never buying another seagate again sadly enough im using a 1.5tb right now which i don't care much for:|
 
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