Life expectancy of recent videocards

[rick_fx]

I don't know if this is in the right section.

How long will our videocards last? Are they rated in hours like HDD's?

Couldn't find anything about this anywhere :(

Thanks for any help :)

[[XC] leviathan18]

they dont die like HDD does but they are phase out due to requirements of better games

[Ugly n Grey]

only item on a video card that carries MTBF ratings is the fan....

[Xyus89]

In my old comp the vid is 6 years, and I've stressed and overclocked it like hell. it's still alive.

xyus

[Mysterfix]

I've still got my Ti 200 running strong in another computer. It still has yet to show signs of failure.

[masterofpuppets]

I've got an old Rage card from 1998 and that still works fine. I can play Half-Life in OpenGL with 800x600 so smoothly with it. :D

[rick_fx]

Hmmmmm .... guess video cards are eternal then :worship:

[Mr. Tinker]

I have my 7800gt's life all planned out for it. A few years of gaming/overclocking, then into the HTPC for a nice easy retirement.

[aja]

i still have a trident 1mb(4x 256KB chips) 2D pci graphics card that i got in 1994(or around then),kept it as a keepsake when i upgraded, but ended up using it again....i think it runs at 33mhz core and 20mhz memory, but im not sure...

used it to play battle of Britain:their finest hour, it barely manages to play carmageddon - remember that?


haha, the days of memory expansion slots on video cards, entire games on a single stiffy disk, and you'd run it from there too, as well as upradeable cpu cache - i'd like to see you try do that with modern cpu haha.....

*sigh*

that would be cool on newer cards though, buy a cheapy, then later upgrade to better ram.......but i guess the architecture wouldn't allow it.....

anyway, back to earth, yep, they last a looooooong time, get a passively cooled one and they last even longer coz the fans die after about 3-6 years in my opinion......(unless of course it is a cheapy like fx5200 or 6200, they seem to run fine without the fan....(on my fx5200 the shocking excuse for a fan fell off haha, took me a month to notice coz makes no difference.......)

[Entity_Razer]

NORMALLY a GPU doesn't undergo wear and tear so it can survive for a LONG time

here at Xtreme systems, I believe the average GPU lifespan is 6 months :)