Just dont make things to last...

[HunterICX]

Well...I just turn my Computer off when I,m done....

Coz my second card the FX5700LE 256 ram , burned out after 4 days continues beeing on and I started to play SH3 and I used TC 1024X and after 5 minutes BLAM! screen turned black....Holy smokes....after that my screen turned black after 25 minutes playing an game or watching an DVD on it....

But...you know...I call the comps of today a lot more vulnerable then the old Pentium II- III my 330Mhz survived without any kind of problems over 7 years. after I did a test if an old 1996 Pentium 2 330mhz - 64 Ram and 8 Vga card ...could run XP Pro....Well It didnt my Motherboard just died after the login screen

[SmokinTep]

My Radeon 9800 Pro lasted me about 2 1/2 years before it died.

[Dowly]

Everything said here leads to a conclusion that Nvidia cards suck. (expect my old GeForce 2, which lasted for 4 years.)

[CWorth]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Everything said here leads to a conclusion that Nvidia cards suck. (expect my old GeForce 2, which lasted for 4 years.)

LOL:rotfl:

I look at it this way..you cannot judge as a whole..you have to judge manufacturer by manufacturer.Nvidia/ATI only makes the GPU's that these companies use.Most build there own cards using Nvidias chips.Its not the chip that is the problem but the shoddy heatsinks,parts and simpe manufacturing that is the problem.

So far these are on my do not buy from again list after problems with their cards failing..BFG,Leadtek,Rosewill,Elsa.

And these I have had no problems with and their cards have lasted...PNY,ASUS,XFX,Chaintech,Jaton

On my card that just failed I looked to find if I could see any burn marks or anything to say what happened..I found that the heatsink was not even flush against the GPU..it was sitting above the GPU and not touching it due to the way they attached the heatsink to the card...only a 1/4x1/4 inch area of glue was connecting the sink to the GPU...no wonder it died.The thing burned itself up.This was a Rosewill 6600GT card.

[Von Taticus]

I've always had ATI Graphics cards , mostly made by Sapphire
An never had a problem with any of them. (the old drivers wern't much cop though)

The later CPUs are running faster with faster FSBs and running more sophisticated programs demanding faster graphics. This pushes the laws of physics & electronics closer and closer to the limit. The closer to the limit the hotter we all get. Keep you stuff cool and it'll run for ever.

Personally I use liquid cooling, CPU, NORTHBRIDGE and GPU. all running at 30 degress
whilst overclocking a 2.5 Mhz to 3.2 GMhz and the FSB 400Mhz, ATI 9800 pro

Oh...

I turn my system off when I'm not using it. (trying to save the planet and all )

Steve (a techy...)

[Keelbuster]

Originally Posted by Von Taticus

I've always had ATI Graphics cards , mostly made by Sapphire
An never had a problem with any of them. (the old drivers wern't much cop though)

The later CPUs are running faster with faster FSBs and running more sophisticated programs demanding faster graphics. This pushes the laws of physics & electronics closer and closer to the limit. The closer to the limit the hotter we all get. Keep you stuff cool and it'll run for ever.

Personally I use liquid cooling, CPU, NORTHBRIDGE and GPU. all running at 30 degress
whilst overclocking a 2.5 Mhz to 3.2 GMhz and the FSB 400Mhz, ATI 9800 pro

Oh...

I turn my system off when I'm not using it. (trying to save the planet and all )

Steve (a techy...)

Sounds like a sick system. I'm openly jealous. I run a pentium 4 2.4Ghz (upgraded heat sink/fan), a Radeon 9700 (stock), with 512 of 333 ram, and an Abit IT7 motherboard. About 2 years into her life, the motherboard had a critical failure related to the onboard network card - everytime i would boot into windows it would hard freeze the system - that's if I have a network cable plugged into the onboard slot. Thought I might have to get a new mobo. Instead I have a cheap network card installed, which works fine, so long as I don't mess with the onboard networking unit. I get the occasional blue screen of death, RAM related I think. When I bought the system I used to overclock it a lot (hence the abit board) but now it's not stable at anything above the factory settings. in fact, when it boots it declares the ram is 266 which freaks me out a bit. She's a bit dodgy, but she runs, for the most part. The ol' 9700 is still running. The occasional ghosting/bad pixels, but she's basically alive.

Kb