Augustus said:
I've owned multiple ATI (some Sapphire, rest ATI) cards and never have had
one quit on me. They've all been o/c and run 24/7 in every system. The
9800Pro (which has run for 4 years now at slightly over XT clocks 24/7) is
still going strong in my kid's system. I've also owned multiple Nvidia cards
from different maufacturers and found them equally reliable. Currently using
an eVGA 7800GTX OC for the last 1 1/2 years.
Same here. 2xRage 32 AGP cards, 1 Radeon 7200, 1 9700Pro, 1 9800 Pro, an
X850 PCIe, and now a 1950xtx. all flawless, , except, , my own fault,
bashed the 9700 mounting my waterblock on it and it was trashed, , and
Comp-usa exchanged it (had the extended warranty thing from them). By
then they only had 9800 pros, so that's what I got. All of them
overclocked, run hard, ect. I am willing to bet that people that are
having repetative problems with their card are running cheap PSUs. I
have NEVER bought a cheap or smallish PSU and I rarely have problems
with anything failing.
If you have to open your case and blow a fan into it, you really need to
do something about the cooling. I use Lian-Li cases, and they're cool
and quiet. They seem to have figured out the whole airflow aspect of it
because my systems, no matter how much they are OCd stay cool.