Re: Graphics Card Failure Rates

First of One wrote:

> 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%
> - Nvidia Geforce 7900GT : 80%

IMO

On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:56:23 -0700, Ant <> wrote:


>Hmm, maybe that is why my EVGA GeForce 7950 GT KO (512 MB)'s fan stopped
>working. At least EVGA's unlimited warranty rocks since I got a GeForce
>8800 GT (512 MB) as a replacement, but its warranty is only for a year.

Problem with 7900GT was that the ram on many cards that companies like
EVGA were overclcoking it to just could not do. Many people had issues
with 7900GT.

On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:43:31 -0500, (Ant) wrote:


>What type of issues from OC speed? Like lock ups, blue screens, fan
>deaths, etc.?

Video graphics corruption. Was easy to test for by running 3DMark 06
Deep Freeze test. I now always run that bench everytime I buy a new
video card because I know if the card makes it through Deep Freeze a
few times it is good to go. I was able to fix one of the cards by
simply downclocking the ram in the vid bios but sent it back to EVGA
anyway after setting the bios back to default ram speed.

On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:16:36 -0700, Ant <> wrote:


>Any known issues with ATI Radeon 4870 (512 MB) video cards? I bought a
>MSI R4870-T2D512 OC Radeon HD 4870 512 MB in December 2008. Haven't seen
>any serious issues except ATI's buggy DVXA video driver (had to use
>v8.10's ativva* files) to avoid blue screens with DVB Viewer Pro v4.

No, I have 4870 and no issues. Thought I had an issue with my new 5870
when I got a freeze in a game a couplemof times but it turned out it
was ATI beta driver they released for the card. Turned off catalyst AI
and it never froze again.