Why won't my 2 GTX 460 1GB die?

[FalseChristian]

A friend of mine has both of them in his new (AMD Athlon FX 8350 at 4.6GHz, 8GB GEIL DDR3-2133MHz, 2 eVGA GTX 460 1GB (837/1674/4200) SLI at 1.0v. I had them overclocked like that since July, 2010! And now they are running Crysis 3 at 1920x1080 at over 40 fps (mind you, without AA). When will these damn cards die? LOL!

 

[nwo]

They usually die after their warranty expires :whiste:

Since you are referecing eVGA, I assume they have lifetime warranty which means they probably invest a few pennies more than the competition in order to make their cards more durable.

 

[chimaxi83]

Because you keep posting about them.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Because you haven't sent them in for a death run

 

[FalseChristian]

Because you keep posting about them.

No trolling!

 

[Rezist]

Is a gtx460 considered old?

 

[Teizo]

They usually die after their warranty expires :whiste:

Since you are referecing eVGA, I assume they have lifetime warranty which means they probably invest a few pennies more than the competition in order to make their cards more durable.

That's funny.

A gave a friend of mine my old PNY GTX460 and it is still going strong as well.

If it is only running at 1.0v, btw....it won't die even though you are running it higher than rated. What it means is his/your card was rated lower than it actually was able of achieving. As long as temps remain in spec, it will probably last around 10-12 years unless he/you start over-volting it.

 

[IEC]

I can fix that for you. Custom BIOS + massive overvolt + Furmark ought to do it eventually.

 

[monkeydelmagico]

Better to burn out than fade away?

 

[Z15CAM]

I got a nVidia EVGA GTX 280 that refuses to die along with a AGP 9800XT.

Go to a dump and excavate a RAGE 128 - They will Work. - Not saying a nVidia TNT will

 

[FalseChristian]

Hell, my 64MB 3Dfx Voodoo5-5500 AGP still works.

 

[FalseChristian]

I can fix that for you. Custom BIOS + massive overvolt + Furmark ought to do it eventually.

That'll do it for sure. I ran Furmark once and my temps approached 100 degress Celsius after 10 minutes! Running any game and the temps never went over 75 C.

 

[Mk32]

I can fix that with my 12 gauge.....

 

[Silverforce11]

Meh, my 5850 is happily mining away at 386 kH/s OC. Its essentially running furmark 24/7...

 

[Roland00Address]

Is a gtx460 considered old?

It is now considered midrange. A gtx 460 is about 80% to 100% of the GTX 650 TI depending on the game. A gtx 460 is much faster than the GTX 650 (cheap edition)

 

[SPBHM]

Is a gtx460 considered old?

Fermi is not that old to be honest, we've only seen one big change since then, 40nm to 28nm, Fermi to Kepler, both are DX11.0 and all.


GTX 460 OC is faster than a 650 Ti at everything I think, reference 460 (it was excessively low clocked) might make the 650 ti look better, but the 460 was pretty popular for custom cards with OC, or simply user OC, and it's pretty much the same chip as the 560...


my 5850 certainly feels a lot older than the 460

 

[blastingcap]

460 isn't old and they were often very excellent overclockers, putting them just below stock HD5850s. If they are limited by anything, it's by limited VRAM, especially the 768MB versions which were also slightly slower.

 

[seitur]

Fermi is not that old. Not sure why you make this a big deal. It would be unexpected and weird if they would die.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Because the gtx 460 series (especially the 768mb version but even the 1gb ones) is one of the coolest, lowest power mid to high end cards for their time. The heat pipe coolers included with these cards were very well matched; they routinely load between 55c to 75c, depending on cooler, while newer cards can often run up from 75c into the 90's.

Gtx 460 was the power tweaked fermi that basically solved all of the heat and power leakage issues. Much like the 8800 gt series before it, cooler running cards tend to last a lot longer.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Fermi is not that old. Not sure why you make this a big deal. It would be unexpected and weird if they would die.

My MSI GTX 460 cyclone crapped out a few weeks after the 3yr warranty expired! Overclocked it for fun once, then ran it stock setting the rest of the time.

It really is weird. Runs 3d games just fine for HOURS, but if you leave it on the desktop it slowly builds up artifacts until it it blue screens and crashes. Best card I've owned from a relevance standpoint.

My XFX 7950 puts it to shame performance-wise, but its had heat issues out of the box.

 

[nwo]

My XFX 7950 puts it to shame performance-wise, but its had heat issues out of the box.

Unfortunately nearly every XFX card that uses more than 1 power connector has the same issue. But just like you, I found that out the hard way, after purchasing my card.

 

[seitur]

My MSI GTX 460 cyclone crapped out a few weeks after the 3yr warranty expired! Overclocked it for fun once, then ran it stock setting the rest of the time.

It really is weird. Runs 3d games just fine for HOURS, but if you leave it on the desktop it slowly builds up artifacts until it it blue screens and crashes. Best card I've owned from a relevance standpoint.

My XFX 7950 puts it to shame performance-wise, but its had heat issues out of the box.

Faulty batch or bad luck then. Anyway it is and should be considered as something out of ordinary rather than a normal occurence.

Desktop GPU that is used without much excess (without overvolting, overheating due to bad airflow, dust or keeping under furmark, etc) should be fully functional for very very long time.