How long Graphic cards last?

Danial Daneshmand · Apr 8, 2015

It's a Club 3D 6950 1GB which isn't the best obviously but
say everything runs smoothly for 2 years and it's in a good condition.
Will it work properly for another 2 years? (Good power , Good Cooling and changing the Thermal Paste)

alexoiu · Apr 8, 2015

I still have a 5870 since 2009, so...

Danial Daneshmand · Apr 8, 2015

alexoiu :

How's your usage? and which model is it?

Dark Lord of Tech · Apr 8, 2015

I still have a 450 GTS from 2010 , still runs perfect.

alexoiu · Apr 8, 2015

Danial Daneshmand :

Normal (no OC), It's a Gigabyte 1GB model.

nukemaster · Apr 8, 2015

It is rare for a card to fail when taken care of.

I still have some Geforce 2's/4 a 9800 pro, x850xt, x1900xt(in use upto last year), 8800gtx, 4870, 5870(still in use), and 5770(still in use). They all still work.

USAFRet · Apr 8, 2015

How long Graphic cards last?

I got my first "PC compatible" in 1987-88 or so. I have never had a graphics card fail. Ever.

EDIT: Additionally, in the hundreds (thousands) of business level PC's I've interacted with over the years, I've not seen one of those fail for a graphics card issue, either.

anti-duck · Apr 8, 2015

And I thought my RIVA TNT2 was an antique lol, it still works perfectly though!

Tom Tancredi · Apr 8, 2015

Danial Daneshmand :

Actually that is a 5 Year Old Card http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2374337,00.asp
Hardware warranties are for only 3 years at most, so after 3 years your taking a chance.
And the 6Series isn't even shown on the AMD webpage http://www.amd.com/en-us/products/graphics
Given that the demand of games is much higher than the card can perform, as well as these other factors, it is way over due to be replaced. especially as it is a old PCI Express 2.1 card, and current cards are 3.0 standard.

Will it keep working? It can, but the manufacturer told you in the Warranty, they won't guarantee it does past 3 years.

nukemaster · Apr 8, 2015

You know PCI-E 3 does not do much for anything but the absolute highest end cards(dual gpu cards maybe).

To add to this the OP would need a new system(assuming it is older) to take advantage of the 1-2 percent(on average) even on a GTX 980 card.

Lower resolutions have the "largest" difference.

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