Quote Originally Posted by cx-ray View Post
I broke an 8800 GTX and two GTX 280 cards. After that I stopped overclocking to the max. Instead, I found the max usable OC, then backed off 1 or 2 steps. Since then, two GTX 480, two GTX 580, and three GTX 680 haven't endured damage. All cards were water cooled.

You can damage your video card just like you can damage your RAM and CPU on your mobo. I guess it still could be bad luck or coincedence. I prefer not to find out again by trying to get that last few percent that isn't noticeable during gaming anyway.
There was a section of the press conference on overvolting where they talked about overvolting and the point at which the silicon's usable life is diminished.

I didn't pay a lot of attention because I don't OC video cards, would rather spend the money for another card and get a big warrantied boost than torturing a much smaller boost out of one card. Let's face it, a lot of games scale 80-90% and you just can't get that OCing.

Not currently planning to buy one of these Titans, would not be a step forward to buy one over my 680SLi, and the difference two would provide isn't worth $2000 to me.

However;were I to buy one, the last thing I would do is overvolt it. Would make me a sad camper to have my $1000 last 6 months.