ATI blew its last chance

candle_86 · Mar 13, 2008, 10:10 AM

well my 8800 died because the PSU died, that i understood but explain this one to me, new PSU using a 1900XTX i traded for, playing COD4 online after 3 hours the comp locks up, when i boot back up it posts but the screen is artifact city. Im starting to think ATI cards sense my hatred of them and just fail. Untill i get more money im running a Matrox Millinium PCI card i had lying around thank god for small miricles.

Later today im taking it box and all and will pump a few shots into this 1900XTX

mandelore · Mar 13, 2008, 10:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by candle_86

1900XTX i traded for

right, 2nd hand card...

anyways, since no-one else appears to have your falure rate with these cards, one could imagine that all of your cards have been "trades" or you just kinda suck with pc's somewhat?

anyways, every single ATI card I have had since I started gaming have only failed under my specific torture.

I lost an x800 costing nearly £400 back in the day when my TEC setup I originally had failed. Melted the case and most my stuff.. strangely my prescott cpu survived that one.

Lost an x1900xtx when i clipped a component off when attempting to fit a tec block (replaced with another x1900xtx)

Maybe it was just a bad card u traded for? who knows

Edit: Hey, I also had a matrox millenium card

candle_86 · Mar 13, 2008, 10:25 AM

well my 7200, 7500, 9200SE, 9600pro, 9800pro, and x800GTO where all new cards. This card ran for 2 years in another computer fine, i get and and pop goes the card. The only stable ATI card ive ever owned is sitting in an IBM Aptivia and its ATI Rage IIC intergrated. Other than that they all blew to hell. Funny thing is Nvidia cards die and i know why, all of those did the same thing this one just did, artifact at boot screen, so there is really only one real conclusion to me, ATI sucks.

candle_86 · Mar 13, 2008, 10:35 AM

anyone wanna buy whats left of my computer, everything else works but the VGA card

KainXS · Mar 13, 2008, 03:49 PM

You take certain chances buying a used card, thats just what happens

candle_86 · Mar 13, 2008, 03:53 PM

well im still upset at ATI, cause every ATI card ive ever owned new or used had died on me.

Azazel · Mar 13, 2008, 03:57 PM

bad karma?

candle_86 · Mar 13, 2008, 04:00 PM

nah, im just gonna consider myself the Anti-ATI because ATI cards die when they get near me

Scrizz · Mar 13, 2008, 04:21 PM

moral of the story is: Buy Matrox

Azazel · Mar 13, 2008, 04:23 PM

lol

thats alot of card that have gone wrong for you...its extremely bad luck lol

Kreij · Mar 13, 2008, 04:32 PM

Every ATI card that I have purchased (9800, x850 XT PE, x1950xtx(s)) still works fine. They run a bit hot, so I up the fan speeds on the boards that support that.

Every NVidia (GeForce) card I've ever purchased worked fine (except for driver issues, and there were many)

Every FireGL card I have purchased works fine.

Every NVidia Quadro based card I've ever purchased (Made by Elsa, Gloria series 1,2 & 3) died a horrific death and had to be replaced. The replacements all failed too.

Other than the Elsa cards, all my GCs have performed fine.
So it must be you Candle

GJSNeptune · Mar 13, 2008, 04:44 PM

Every single manufactured good comes with a failure rate. You were using a used video card, thus it isn't necessarily ATI's shortcoming.

suraswami · Mar 13, 2008, 04:56 PM

Do you live in the desert? Do you not let fresh air from outside inside ur home? Keep your room above normal hot? No air circulation inside and thru your case? Do you use crappy unreliable PSU to power ur power hungry GC? Do you use an unreliable mobo that cannot supply adequate power to the GC?

If you answered 'yes' to any of the above no matter what card you buy will die.

I sent a brand new ATI 9200 card which is passively cooled, but I sticked a small fan on it, to India. Damn it ran hot because the room the comp has no air circulation (because my mom is allergic to dust). It died in 4 months. My bro never game. He does photo and video editing.

Exceededgoku · Mar 13, 2008, 05:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mandelore

right, 2nd hand card...

anyways, since no-one else appears to have your falure rate with these cards, one could imagine that all of your cards have been "trades" or you just kinda suck with pc's somewhat?

anyways, every single ATI card I have had since I started gaming have only failed under my specific torture.

I lost an x800 costing nearly £400 back in the day when my TEC setup I originally had failed. Melted the case and most my stuff.. strangely my prescott cpu survived that one.

Lost an x1900xtx when i clipped a component off when attempting to fit a tec block (replaced with another x1900xtx)

Maybe it was just a bad card u traded for? who knows

Edit: Hey, I also had a matrox millenium card

It was still at idle temps when everything else was melting...

candle_86 · Mar 13, 2008, 05:43 PM

well i have the failure rate in front of me for ATI cards, mark my words i wont take another even if you give it to me free.

AsRock · Mar 13, 2008, 06:19 PM

What i find kinda funny is is that your not blaming the PSU crapping out and maybe messing your card up...

DaMulta · Mar 13, 2008, 06:22 PM

I had a HD2900 live threw a TEC meltdown!!!!

I also had one survive a huge leak, and the video output was going crazy for who knows how long.

candle_86 · Mar 13, 2008, 06:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AsRock

What i find kinda funny is is that your not blaming the PSU crapping out and maybe messing your card up...

why would i, the rosewill blew to hell, i put the allied back in, everything stable untill this. And just to note, this Allied PSU powered the 8800GS oced just fine, so its the xtx

Scrizz · Mar 13, 2008, 06:33 PM

I think all your vid cards hate u, including the 8800
lol

calvary1980 · Mar 13, 2008, 06:33 PM

never had anything fail on me, no rma. either I got the power of jesus on my side or lady luck.

but still your a jamook for using a rosewill power supply.

- Christine

FilipM · Mar 13, 2008, 06:46 PM

Whoa man, you have some bad luck with graphics cards.

The only thing that died in my case is a GeForce 256, never discovered why, it just stopped working.

BarbaricSoul · Mar 13, 2008, 06:55 PM

I fried a MX440 within 40 days of installing it, other than that, every card I've bought still works and most are still in use. Your just bad luck for GPU

Snake05 · Mar 13, 2008, 06:58 PM

You are just not ment to have a graphics card

...You should look into integrated

GJSNeptune · Mar 13, 2008, 07:07 PM

Then his motherboard goes POP.

AsRock · Mar 13, 2008, 07:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by candle_86

why would i, the rosewill blew to hell, i put the allied back in, everything stable untill this. And just to note, this Allied PSU powered the 8800GS oced just fine, so its the xtx

Don't mean shi.... Same thing could of happened with the GT.. For you to blame only the v card is just single minded... HEY! maybe you damaged the PSU when you overclocked the PSU who knows.... And as for how many gone wrong on you i would start looking to blame other than PSU or v card lol.

Been building PC's since the ISA days and not had the crap you had.

Mar 13, 2008, 10:10 AM	#1
candle_86 Banned Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 2,642 (1.13/day) Thanks: 76 Thanked 237 Times in 200 Posts	ATI blew its last chance well my 8800 died because the PSU died, that i understood but explain this one to me, new PSU using a 1900XTX i traded for, playing COD4 online after 3 hours the comp locks up, when i boot back up it posts but the screen is artifact city. Im starting to think ATI cards sense my hatred of them and just fail. Untill i get more money im running a Matrox Millinium PCI card i had lying around thank god for small miricles. Later today im taking it box and all and will pump a few shots into this 1900XTX

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Mar 13, 2008, 10:25 AM	#3
candle_86 Banned Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 2,642 (1.13/day) Thanks: 76 Thanked 237 Times in 200 Posts	well my 7200, 7500, 9200SE, 9600pro, 9800pro, and x800GTO where all new cards. This card ran for 2 years in another computer fine, i get and and pop goes the card. The only stable ATI card ive ever owned is sitting in an IBM Aptivia and its ATI Rage IIC intergrated. Other than that they all blew to hell. Funny thing is Nvidia cards die and i know why, all of those did the same thing this one just did, artifact at boot screen, so there is really only one real conclusion to me, ATI sucks.

Mar 13, 2008, 10:35 AM	#4
candle_86 Banned Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 2,642 (1.13/day) Thanks: 76 Thanked 237 Times in 200 Posts	anyone wanna buy whats left of my computer, everything else works but the VGA card

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candle_86 Banned Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 2,642 (1.13/day) Thanks: 76 Thanked 237 Times in 200 Posts	well im still upset at ATI, cause every ATI card ive ever owned new or used had died on me.

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candle_86 Banned Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 2,642 (1.13/day) Thanks: 76 Thanked 237 Times in 200 Posts	nah, im just gonna consider myself the Anti-ATI because ATI cards die when they get near me

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candle_86 Banned Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 2,642 (1.13/day) Thanks: 76 Thanked 237 Times in 200 Posts	well i have the failure rate in front of me for ATI cards, mark my words i wont take another even if you give it to me free.

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