One of my 2 year old EVGA GTX570 cards have just failed and was wondering whats the failure rate on graphic cards?
Of all the years iv been using a computer iv never had this happen.
Is this just a one off thing or is this something that's becoming alot more common theses days? luckily its still under warranty and the place i bought it from said they cant give me a new one being that its discontinued, but they will give me store credit for another one. Which is kinda cool because i was in the market in getting a new GTX770 anyway. I have a Sony $500 cash card from when i bought my 4K tv and now ill have an extra $400 so i might get something bigger. Im going to be locked at 30hz at 4K anyway so i don't want to get anything over board till HDMI 2.0 is on a GPU. What ever i get i think i might go with what ever has the most warranty now.
These Cards where going to collect dust and now i getting the full amount back on it.
well it depends on a lot of factors, how hot the card was running, how often it was cleaned, how much dust build up there was, if it was exposed to static discharge, etc, etc. GPU burn outs are a lot more common now then they use to be, I still have a ATI 9250 that is still running somehow.
very clean machine, free of dust and never over clocked. just a case of bad luck. but im getting my money back on a 2 year old card so i cant complain.
I find it depends on the re-brand of gpu that you buy. My personal opinion is that 10 ish years ago Sapphire made strong amd cards. Now? I have had 3 7970s fail on me within the period of the warranty. I ended up selling one of the rma'ed cards and buying a 780ti from Asus because I trust their quality control. It really chalks up to (your luck) * (company quality control)/ (damage reaching destination)= potential healthy card that will last anywhere from 2 to 4 years.
Webduelist, all good points :) I cleaned my gpu regularly while making sure static charge wasnt an issue, using air only to clean, and making sure all case intakes have fine mesh air filters and it still burnt out.
The other reason I switched brands and re-brands is that the 780 is a really strong card that runs quieter and Asus' rma service is in the states and NOT hong kong like sapphire. The lack of localization is not my preference as a consumer.