I have ton of dead Nvidia video cards, especially that EVGA brand, 2 years max. I have been used and abused ton of AMD video cards and none is dead. I promised myself to never ever buy Nvidia chip video card again.
Want to share the specs and how you used those cards? E.g. approx. capacity usage and how many hours did they last before they died? How many alternatives have you tried and what's your personal most durable one now?
Nothing modify, just plug and play stuffs. A couple EVGA 9800GTX, a couple EVGA 8600GT, a few 8600 none EVGA, all dead within a couple years. I have 4 computers at our house. My impression at this point is to preventing Nvidia at all cost.
I have to agree with him there. I've been in the IT field for many years and Nvidia based cards fry a LOT more often than AMD/ATI Cards as far as I can remember back. Just by normal use, heck even swapping them into different computers they can just get zapped by static E . Never had this happen on AMD/ATI cards/
I like how they (Nvidias)are usually faster, more stable but I think that has been all driver related f-ups from AMD.
i cant speak about nvidia quality but i have been pretty hard on some of my older amd gpu's and they have stood the test of time.
in the post pentium early days amd had a bad rep about burning up when trying to overclock too much or play with frequencies in a haphazard fashion.. looks like they have learned from earlier designs and created a very robust product in result.