How much time did the "medium" PC shelf work for you?

I have been playing games since the mid-90s and NO card has survived for more than 3 years.
These are not small amounts of money and everything works except the graphics card.
What are your feelings and why is this happening?

Zenon407 wrote:

What are your feelings

mixed .
What do you expect, since we do not know what we are talking about, what is the configuration of the equipment, including the power supply. The card works on factory settings, do you overclock it?
What are the card's temperatures during stress of course?

It is more about the working time of such a card - without overclocking.
Power supplies, memories, motherboards.
It is even 10 years apart from the graphics card.
Lead-free balls on which graphic blocks are placed?
How does rebaling of graphic design put on lead balls?
If so, should the card be flashing longer?

The cards I use most often go to family or friends' computers and continue to function normally. Years.

Maybe you choose the very warm models themselves, which by themselves have less chance of surviving many years in good condition?

Card model, cooling, power supply, thermal conditions in the housing, etc., etc.!

As above, there are a lot of cards that are now a few / dozen or so years old and work so far.

Of course, if the choice fell on the GF8800 - a problem with chips, whether on HD3850 / 70, HD4850 / 70 in the referent version and 100 melts during the game or on the whole multitude of GTX260 / 275/285, all 2xGPU constructions are not bad to surprise.

All Fermi and high Radeon HD58xx / HD68xx models with poor cooling add to this.

In general, graphics cards are one of the most vulnerable components.

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Maybe you choose the very warm models themselves, which by themselves have less chance of surviving many years in good condition?

Lately:

MSI R9 270 - all 3 years - scrap metal
a few years ago
GeForce GTX 470 - two years - scrap

In the housing cold as today

What powered these cards?
What producers?

You can always have "happiness".

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You can always have "happiness".

20 years

GTS 450 (Fermi), initially very curly, with time less and less wanted to overclock, I have it for about six years and still works, but for two years I have been using the computer to watch movies, and admittedly I have already replaced thermal paste under gpu, but card fully functional.

Zenon407 wrote:

20 years

I don't know because you don't write anything about cards!

In the ads I have S3Trio that works longer

m.tosiek wrote:

admittedly I have already mentioned thermal paste under gpu

Because you have to do it - once or twice a year!

I don't even remember what the card was but it lasted about 4 years, then I saw guides with putting in the oven, then went for a few months but I didn't try

To be honest, I don't know, I didn't have any cards for more than 2 years, they all went on sale and I don't know their history, but every few months I clean the card and the whole computer, I didn't have any problems.

In fact, not counting the entire Geforce 8 *** series where the 8800GT fell by itself and the 8800 Ultra was heating up to 105-110 degrees.

Palit gtx 460 SE v2 lasted 5 years. In fact, it still works, but in newer games it has already started to spill out. Its TDP is 150W so it rather belongs to those power-consuming. The heat sink has been cleaned twice during these 5 years. The paste was still original and the temperatures were very low.

Cleaning the entire computer from dust, prock heatsinks, graphics card and power supply.
Ceramic paste lasts long if you don't overheat the card
It seems to me that I normally deal with computer.
And the cards sit down ....
I don't even remember the symbols of the cards from 2000 anymore ... how I would work longer - I would remember.

Buddy Zenon407, did you start the topic for sport, do you expect specific answers?
So far, you have not given any specific answer to your questions.
I will not quote everything because too much of it.
Just one example

Zenon407 wrote:

I don't even remember the 2000 card symbols anymore

It's been 17 years, and they are supposed to win three? Don't you remember those too?
And many other questions asked in the air .

You get on.
Answer: Is putting a graphic slingshot on lead-free balls more durable than lead?
Is this a deliberate "aging" of the product?

Ps. In your opinion, I had to write down all graphics cards since 2000?
The first computer had 1994 and 32MHz slingshot. No graphics card.

kokapetyl wrote:

Buddy Zenon407, did you start the topic for sport, do you expect specific answers?

All in all ... even for specific answers, the topic probably fits more with Computers "Beginners" than with "What to buy". Because I don't see questions like "what to buy" here.

And my cards? Hmm, I don't even remember the first one (I was too small ), certainly a Radeon, and certainly lasted for many years before I sold the computer, the second graphics card (in the second computer) GeForce GT 7600 - about 8 years (probably if someone had replaced the thermo-conductive paste at least once, it would still work), later it was GTX 570 - 4 and a half years somehow, memory has fallen, but I still managed to sell.

It all depends on the card, e.g. my GTX 570 was warming up quite well (and the fans were probably extracting 80dB) - TDP 220W - no wonder something burned, the more that it was used during that time ... not bad - playing for hours on maximum details in undemanding games these matters ...

And lead, lead-free balls and stuff? - I don't know, I don't know anything about it, but ... isn't that a bit coming up with conspiracy theories?

I have little experience, first there was a card in the first computer, but I was too small to be interested in it, it worked for 5 years and the computer went to the closet ... Later GT9800, of course fell after a few years (artifacts in stress) , but I didn't even play in the oven, now I have about 5-year-old Radek 7970, the old man warms up like stupid, but works as it should. It was only when I bought it that I decided to invest in a higher-end power supply (gold + for PLN 100 because a few cables were missing) ) Now I buy everything except hard drives and I don't complain

Only once a used power supply broke after a year of purchase, fortunately it had a long warranty, and since it could not be repaired and there are no new ones, I got 5 times what I gave it ...

I only replace thermal grease when I start the computer / replace a part, on average once every 2 years. The case is always open, although the computer is in a bay.