|  | | GeForce Tends to Break Down More Often in NGOHQ | 
As you know, we are currently working hard on upcoming reviews and several software projects. Yesterday after hard day of benchmarking, we decided to take a break and to lose some pressure by playing Call of Duty: World at War cooperative mode in LAN with our temporary systems. So we spent an hour or two on the game until we reached the third level and then the game crashed with DirectX errors and yellow artifacts.
First, we thought it is just a minor driver issue, but after some time of investigation, we found out that another GeForce card has died on us. We tried to revive it back, but without any luck. So we went up to the warehouse to check for some replacement and to place the broken card in the broken section. Anyways, we found out that six (3x8800GTs, 2x7800GT, 1x7600GS) GeForce cards died on us in the last three years (natural deaths). While on the other hand, Radeon cards never died on us. Hell, we still have a dusty Radeon 9800XT working on one of our beta stations.
Eventually we picked up a Radeon HD 3850, installed it and dropped the quality settings a bit to obtain playable framerates. Then we kept playing until we finished that weird tank level. If you are wondering about the score, I can easily confirm that my score was 2-3 times higher in most of the levels! Even in these when I left for my regularly smoking breaks.
Last edited by Regeneration; December 6th, 2008 at 01:44 PM..
| | | | 10 Comments | | | "If you are wondering about the score, I can easily confirm that my score was 2-3 times higher in most of the levels! Even in these when I left for my regularly smoking breaks."
Bullshit. Your score was 30-50% higher, and you used the host and the best computer, camping behind me, stealing my kills. And if we talk about kills, at the tank level I had more kills then you... |
Last edited by Regeneration; December 6th, 2008 at 05:06 PM..
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Last edited by Regeneration; December 7th, 2008 at 03:37 PM..
| Quote | | | | | I've never had an nvidia GPU die on me. | | | | I've had a brand new 8800GT die on me. What I'm talking about is in less than 1 month of use it was gone, when running in an SLI configuration (and primarily playing Age of Conan...). Now I've had numerous other Nvidia cards that worked well for years of heavy use (with some "abuse"!). | | | | my Geforce FX, Geforce 4Ti and 4mx's are all still workin fine after all this time, I'd habbit a guess that its a card failure and not the gpu itself, stick with reputable brands when buying video cards. | | | | I've on my laptop with 7800, the Nvidia has died twice and had to have it repaired.
Planning to build a desktop, and there is without a doubt, no plans ever to use Nvidia again. Especially with the recent news of their business practice.
In the past, ATI had never failed me, and worked amazingly well. | | | | I sent two times my radeon hd2600xt to repair it :-(
Now it is at sapphire and have no idea when it will come back to me... i miss my little red one ;-) | | | | Word, failures are not limited to nvidia, PCB design is crucial in making a long lasting card | | | | Had a nvidia 7600gt die on me and thats it. Ati X1950GT, X300, 3870 (2 of them) and a 4850 all been fine. | |
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