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i wouldnt put down the 590gtx just yet, it still has development, the 295 developed a whole new pcb design during its production.
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2001 - 2011: biggest vga failure of the decade?
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i wouldnt put down the 590gtx just yet, it still has development, the 295 developed a whole new pcb design during its production.
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The Quadro analogue... the Quadro 110M, I think, died on a number of my Latitude D620s. Awful, awful chips. The same has happened on a number of Quadro NVS 295s in various workstations, too. I don't think it's as much a chip design issue as it is a manufacturing issue somewhere along the way. Very cut-rate, and fantastically unreliable. Either way, the result is the same - the consumer is on endless warranty calls, or if you don't have warranty, is just screwed. I've jumped entirely to AMD (for workstations) and Intel onboard (on laptops) organization-wide simply because of many Nvidia cards' still-unresolved longevity issues.
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i would if i were you, ive had one die for no reason what so ever, just one day, no signal, everything ive tried.
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I'm on my third on my own Precision T3500. I've had 3 others need replacements, too. This is with 15 machines, tops, with the NVS 295. That's a horrific failure rate.
FWIW, the NVS 285 and 290 have always worked fabulously. Something about the 295 is just b0rked. HP workstation users complain about the same phenomena...
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03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G98 [Quadro NVS 295] (rev a1)Crap ...
Any idea how long they tend to last, before kicking the bucket? This machine has been on pretty much 24/7 for about 18 months, with only the occasional reboot.
EDIT: It's a Dell T7500, not that it matters.
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It's variable. I've had 3 months to about a year and a half before failure; it's quite a spread.
Just had another one croak at the end of last week in my environment. Fun. I took the heat sink off just out of curiosity. Manufacturer print screened on the PCB?
Foxconn.
Oh. I understand now.
Just had another one croak at the end of last week in my environment. Fun. I took the heat sink off just out of curiosity. Manufacturer print screened on the PCB?
Foxconn.
Oh. I understand now.
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foxconn is just bad full stop, 2 foxconn made ipods, broke, the one that they sent from and i quite: "an alternative manufacturer" still working to this day.
Probably the FX5200, the DX9 card that was too slow to play any DX9 games.
I bought that card right when it first came out for like $130 to replace my Geforce 2 MX400 because the guy at the computer store convinced me it would be much faster. It was not faster at all. Since then I never bought any computer equipment without doing my own research on forums like this one.
I bought that card right when it first came out for like $130 to replace my Geforce 2 MX400 because the guy at the computer store convinced me it would be much faster. It was not faster at all. Since then I never bought any computer equipment without doing my own research on forums like this one.
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