Nvidia cards, do they still die?

[TooNice]

Ah, that's where I got the 24 months from. To be honest I always thought they were only a year. I seem to remember a period where people had issues with RMA-ing XFX card with Scan (mass delays of some sort). Has that been resolved at least?

[moogle]

Ah, that's where I got the 24 months from. To be honest I always thought they were only a year. I seem to remember a period where people had issues with RMA-ing XFX card with Scan (mass delays of some sort). Has that been resolved at least?

The only delay problem I know of was the "special" procedure that Scan have with XFX that is supposed to "help" the customer, which involved in Scan testing the card, confirming if it was faulty or not faulty and if so then sending it to XFX to test it as well, which made RMA's much longer.

It's 12/24 months for a special reason anyway

[pipTheGeek]

Most of the surviving 6600's that I mentioned previously are XFX. I normally buy XFX, although my latest card is a gigabyte one, but that was only because Scan sold out of the XFX just before I was ready to buy it, so I had to go elsewhere and they didn't have the XFX I wanted.
Anyway's, so far so good with the Gigabyte card. (It's an Nvidia 9800GT if anyone cares)

[Agent]

I don't know of any problems with XFX, but even if there were, it wouldn't matter. With double lifetime, you're covered even if you're the second owner.

I only buy XFX if newegg has stock.

I'd rather not risk the hassle of exchanging it if it does break though.....which in some cases has been known to take weeks

[Golden Dragoon]

I have 3 nVidia cards sat here that have died over the years, the 6800le went with capacitor problems, a quatro that simply displays nothing, and a gainward 7900 that has artifacts (this was still under waranty, but gainward refused to help, so will never buy a gw card again) I do have a 6600gt that is still working perfectly though, and never had problems with my other nVida cards.
Saying that though I have a dead radeon 9500 here as well, but that was my fault tried to volt mod it a bit too far lol

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I have 3 nVidia cards sat here that have died over the years, the 6800le went with capacitor problems, a quatro that simply displays nothing, and a gainward 7900 that has artifacts (this was still under waranty, but gainward refused to help, so will never buy a gw card again) I do have a 6600gt that is still working perfectly though, and never had problems with my other nVida cards.
Saying that though I have a dead radeon 9500 here as well, but that was my fault tried to volt mod it a bit too far lol

My 6800LE had noisy capacitors. I believe the problem was with the cards was because the card manufacterers were using higher temperature ROHS solder with capacitors which were not rated for use with this type of solder.

[Mithrandir]

I've got and using cards from both camps and of varying generations (still using 1st gen Geforce DDR AGP )

Both have been good throughout the years. Just make sure you have sufficient and clean power supplied to the gpu and also good air passing through

[Badbonji]

My 7600gs, gt are still working fine, and my GTX295 is ok but isn't that old. Plus, it comes with a 10 year warranty :O

[Grymdawg]

Had a Voodoo3, Riva TNT2, Geforce 6800 GT, a Geforce 6800 Ultra 256, a 7600 GS and an 8800.

Never had any problems with any of those cards, despite some of them being relics.

[watforddude]

Except for that laptop chip problem last year, I'ven ever heard of any widespread nVidia reliability problems. Heck, I bought an nVidia card for my desktop 18 months ago because my old laptop's GeForce 2 GO is 7 years old and still works (too bad the laptop itself doesn't anymore; the AC cable and batteries are both shot).

I had one of them and it lasted from 2002/3 i think we got the computer till 2008 but it still wasnt dead the computer just died.

[sammorris]

To be honest, I think the big problem with nvidia's reliability is the mobile chips. The desktop ones are usually alright, at least they are nowadays.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

To be honest, I think the big problem with nvidia's reliability is the mobile chips. The desktop ones are usually alright, at least they are nowadays.

The mobile chips in question were the G84 and G86 which are the same chips used in the desktop 8400GS,8500GT,8600GT/8600GTS and their numerous rebrands.

The only thing is that the desktop chips are usually better cooled and will go though less extreme cooling and heating cycles so the problem may not be so pronounced(or will take longer to appear).

Hopefully my passively cooled 8500GT will be fine especially after all the overclocking I did on it!