R.I.P. GTX460 [February 2011 - August 2014]

RealNeil · Aug 14, 2014

I've had good luck with EVGA, and ASUS, and even PNY GPUs.
The two oldest cards I have are ASUS and PNY GTX-570s that are both going strong. The next oldest are a pair of EVGA GTX-680s that are likewise, going strong.
I'd buy any of these brands again.

neatfeatguy · Sep 9, 2014

I've had good cards from PNY, EVGA, BFG and Zotac.

The PNY 7600 GT PCI-E, to my knowledge, is still working in a hand-me down PC I built a co-worker 6 years ago because he was very limited with cash and the family computer broke beyond repair. I used older parts, he just had to pay for a MB and CPU.

My younger brother is still using the GTX 285 card from BFG (that's flashed with a GTX 280 BIOS) and I owned it for a little over 2 years before he got it - so it's been around for almost 6 years now in constant use. Long story short - the card kept failing with the 285 BIOS and the card was the replacement for the GTX 280 that came damaged out of the box. BFG closed doors and I was left with a faulty 285. So I copied the BIOS from my working 280, flashed it on the 285 and it worked and still does, as a GTX 280.

In the end, I personally expect a GPU to run upwards of 5+ years with good maintenance. Hopefully your next card does just that for you.

GorbazTheDragon · Sep 15, 2014

EVGA is king of GPUs ATM IMO...

I have an Asus 8500GT (passively cooled) that has been running for 5 years in a badly ventilated case, it survived volt-modding and benching at 1.7v with some stupid OCs (all air cooled). I really think it's luck of the draw with these things though.

System Name	Home Brewed
Processor	i9-7900X and i7-8700K
Motherboard	ASUS ROG Rampage VI Extreme & ASUS Prime Z-370 A
Cooling	Corsair 280mm AIO & Thermaltake Water 3.0
Memory	64GB DDR4-3000 GSKill RipJaws-V & 32GB DDR4-3466 GEIL Potenza
Video Card(s)	2X-GTX-1080 SLI & 2 GTX-1070Ti 8GB G1 Gaming in SLI
Storage	Both have 2TB HDDs for storage, 480GB SSDs for OS, and 240GB SSDs for Steam Games
Display(s)	ACER 28" B286HK 4K & Samsung 32" 1080P
Case	NZXT Source 540 & Rosewill Rise Chassis
Audio Device(s)	onboard
Power Supply	Corsair RM1000 & Corsair RM850
Mouse	Generic
Keyboard	Razer Blackwidow Tournament & Corsair K90
Software	Win-10 Professional
Benchmark Scores	yes

System Name	Personal / HTPC
Processor	Ryzen 5900x / i5-4460
Motherboard	Asrock x570 Phantom Gaming 4 /ASRock Z87 Extreme4
Cooling	Corsair H100i / stock HSF
Memory	32GB DDR4 3200 / 8GB DDR3 1600
Video Card(s)	EVGA XC3 Ultra RTX 3080Ti / EVGA RTX 3060 XC
Storage	500GB Pro 970, 250 GB SSD, 1TB & 500GB Western Digital / 2x 4TB & 1x 8TB WD Red, 2TB SSD & 4TB SSD
Display(s)	Dell - S3220DGF 32" LED Curved QHD FreeSync Monitor / 50" LCD TV
Case	CoolerMaster HAF XB Evo / CM HAF XB Evo
Audio Device(s)	Logitech G35 headset
Power Supply	850W SeaSonic X Series / 750W SeaSonic X Series
Mouse	Logitech G502
Keyboard	Black Microsoft Natural Elite Keyboard
Software	Windows 10 Pro 64 / Windows 10 Pro 64

System Name	Indis the Fair (cursed edition)
Processor	11900k 5.1/4.9 undervolted.
Motherboard	MSI Z590 Unify-X
Cooling	Heatkiller VI Pro, VPP755 V.3, XSPC TX360 slim radiator, 3xA12x25, 4x Arctic P14 case fans
Memory	G.Skill Ripjaws V 2x16GB 4000 16-19-19 (b-die@3600 14-14-14 1.45v)
Video Card(s)	EVGA 2080 Super Hybrid (T30-120 fan)
Storage	970EVO 1TB, 660p 1TB, WD Blue 3D 1TB, Sandisk Ultra 3D 2TB
Display(s)	BenQ XL2546K, Dell P2417H
Case	FD Define 7
Audio Device(s)	DT770 Pro, Topping A50, Focusrite Scarlett 2i2, Røde VXLR+, Modmic 5
Power Supply	Seasonic 860w Platinum
Mouse	Razer Viper Mini, Odin Infinity mousepad
Keyboard	GMMK Fullsize v2 (Boba U4Ts)
Software	Win10 x64/Win7 x64/Ubuntu

R.I.P. GTX460 [February 2011 - August 2014]

RealNeil

neatfeatguy

GorbazTheDragon