Quote Originally Posted by InCredible View Post
what i dont think you're taking into consideration is the reliability of this card.
So the big fuss is the cards are dying with adding voltage or overclocks, however this shouldn't be the case period.
When any one manufacturers a working part, they over engineer it for multiple reasons, one being reliability. This extra engineering allows for us to overclock things, maybe produce more horsepower on stock internals things of this nature. When you make something and its already at the limits, then reliability is obviously sacrificed to do so. This makes me question how long will this card honestly last, even at stock frequencies. Will it make it a year? 2 or 3?. Most people keep their high end cards for at least a year more likely 2 or 3. If this card can't last a few days with an overclock or voltage increase wouldn't you think that MAYBE it might not make it as long as you would like. Thats my biggest issue with the card and is a reason they need a revision imo or to STOP making dual gpu cards with such power hungry gpu's. Wait til 28nm or whatever is next where the possibility is more likely.

I'm not to sure about the whole reliability argument anymore.... it was a big issue at launch because within a day there were a handful of cases where the cards had blown up..... but since then I have yet to see any other cases of the cards exploding or people having issues with them. I would love to see HWC do an in depth review of the card in Overclocking with the latest drivers with voltage increases as well as it would be interesting to see if [H] results could be duplicated..... [H] is a joke.....