Any1 else have had problem with their GTX 2xx cards eventually starting to degrade in stability prematurely? Has happened to both a EVGA GTX 260 SP216 OC after like 9~10 months and now for EVGA GTX 280 after 14 months or so.
The GTX 260 got so bad it would only randomly boot at stock clocks but sometimes freeze during windows login and had to run below stock clocks etc b4 it finally gave up.
Now this same issue have plagued my GTX 280, my clocks only getting more and more unstable so have to lower my clocks and now it's that bad it happens at stock clocks and even got my first lockup with the clocks slightly below stock... when it happens the whole screen gets filled with a weird colored and textured pattern and have to reset.
Are the caps/vregs etc really of that bad quality on GTX 2xx series or it's only my bad luck? I've been playing UT3 like a couple of hrs in average daily. Now I'd really wanna wait for at least Barts to be released before I'd decide what card to pick next but looks like I may not be able to wait that long.... sux, it's like running out of fuel on the last lap in a Formula 1 race while you were about to win... so close, yet so far away... suppose I'll have to start concidering getting a GTX 460 perhaps but I really would wanna wait for Barts... :/
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