Re: Graphics Card Failure Rates

First of One wrote:

> Interesting failure statistics from a "large French e-retailer"
> covering parts sold between September 2008 and March 2009.
>
> Failure rate by brand:
> - PNY 1.69%
> - ASUSTeK 1.71%
> - MSI 2.05%
> - Gigabyte 2.63%
> - Sapphire 2.7%
> - Gainward 3.15%
> - Point Of View 4.67%
>
> PNY seems to be doing quite well.
>
> Failure rate by chipset:
> - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 : 2.4%
> - ATI Radeon HD 4850 : 3.3%
> - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 : 6.5%
> - ATI Radeon HD 4870 : 6.1%
> - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 : 8.3%
> - ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 : 10.5%
>
> The GTX 295 is more reliable than the GTX 280, despite its greater
> complexity.
>
> Article is in French, so use Google Translate if required:
> http://www.hardware.fr/articles/773-...omposants.html

Is this for actual failures, or just all returns? Not all returns are
actual failures. For example, a lot of the GTX cards have a whine
during certain graphic instances. There is considerable info about it
if you google it, and often these cards are returned to the
manufacturer and replaced, and the customer has found the same problem
with the replacement. It's not a failure, but a resonance from the
coils. My FTX275 did it when I first got it, but after a few weeks of
use, it's stopped doing it altogether. Many people returned them after
a few days of it doing it. Instances llike this would skew the figures
for the GTX range.
Crash Lander

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