This is a vent as well as a decision

My 295 broke down so I received a 480gtx which also broke down and I got another 480 gtx which broke down and I got another 480gtx and it broke down I got another 480gtx.....

Well this 480 also is now dead, and i do mean dead, am I supposed to rma this card again or just throw it in the trash and call it quits... The shipping charges is adding up for me and evga both as I live in hawaii..

Ive been almost ready to splurge buy a asus 770 but the bottom line is id be more then happy to have my 295 gtx back as I basically play only team fortress 2...

Seems that every 480 that evga sends me lasts for about 3 months before errors start eventually resulting in a faulty card...

I dont think tf2 pushes the 480 at all, temps is fine and card is not overclocked, I think the psu is splitting it like you mention but really shouldn't be a problem when it gets down to it...

The Gpus always start of small like crashes here and then and always slowly get worse throughout the months.. My current gpu is at the point that I can no longer get into windows on a full fresh reformat...

Bottom line is im pretty darn sure the failures is not on my end as this is not my only pc

My psu has been tested time after time with no fluctuations through the bios and with a fluke multimeter under load....On top of that you can put a stronger 670 in my pc with no issues, put the 480 in and the pc wont even get to the desktop....

All my failed Gpus have been tested and tried on other pcs.....5 months is about the maximum life expectancy im getting from evga 480s

My thread is about quality control issues, im 100% sure my pc is not the culprit

Yes I'm not taking all the power from one rail, its using 2 rails and splitting it to the gpu

I would recommend replacing the PSU, and if you want to, bake the card

 
Getting a new PSU would be the best possible choice.

burts
My psu has been tested time after time with no fluctuations through the bios and with a fluke multimeter under load....On top of that you can put a stronger 670 in my pc with no issues, put the 480 in and the pc wont even get to the desktop....

All my failed Gpus have been tested and tried on other pcs.....5 months is about the maximum life expectancy im getting from evga 480s

My thread is about quality control issues, im 100% sure my pc is not the culprit

Yes I'm not taking all the power from one rail, its using 2 rails and splitting it to the gpu

What they are trying to say is that your corsair psu is 2 500 watt units bridged from back when you could get away with that and a 1000 watt psu was a big deal. What your probably having happen is your not pushing the psu past the 500 watts of the first unit, so its like running one 500 watt psu, which will def fail after being so old with cap wear etc... Even if you split the rails with the molex to 6 pin dongles, you may not see any difference if your rated amps on load isn't enough to engage the whole psu. Get a loaner psu from a friend, or take it to a shop and ask them to do a quick wire up of a newer quality unit and you might get a different result.

It is possible as over or undervolting significantly wears down on components, and usually the GPU's are the first to go

Load tested the psu and voltage is fine

Thanks everybody for your replys and information, I will contact evga to find results on the bad card

Because capacitor degradation is something that happens sure but bottom line is there are tons of 15+ year old psu's working just fine...

Sure i can afford a new psu easily enough but the problems with the refurbished gpu's FOLLOWS the gpu...

Basically 480s fail and i blame my psu but at the same time i can stick a asus 670 in my pc overclock the gpu and it works flawlessly for months with no breakdowns? So why would I change a psu that runs a 670 with zero breakdowns in order to run a obsolete 480...

The only case I see for myself is the psu is degrading the Gpus into premature failures but why not my 670?

After every 480 i returned I run another gpu just swap it out and my pc works with absolute zero crashes...


.....This post will be updated upon further testing as I will run the 670 under heavy loads.....(wont be the first time it's been done)

I still blame evga for quality control...

I dont take everyones recommendations for a new psu lightly but will not change it until I see my current gpu crash..

I brought myself to finally mail rma back the gpu because it really was about to go in the trash can...

I was going to ignore this thread, but since it's on-going, i'll add abit of information i think could be of use.
Please don't mis-interpret this as critisizing or bashing or what not.  It's just information.
 
Way back in the mid to late 1990's i bought a used system with a keyboard that used the AT connector to connect to the mainboard. Over the span of afew months i had 3 mainboards crap out on me.  I got together with a friend with some disposable computer components and eventually we discovered through the process of elimination that there was something wrong with the keyboard and it was actually frying a chip on the mainboard that had to do with keeping system time.
 
That was just a keyboard.  Nothing else.  You could take it and connect it to any system, current at that time, and in a matter of weeks the mainboard would no longer work properly.
 
If you had a tire go flat on your car and got it replaced on warranty and it happened again 4 more times (by which point i'm sure the dealer would no longer be willing to replace your tire) would you eventually entertain the possiblility that there might be something wrong with the rim these tires were going on ?
 
A very good article  i found ages ago regarding Power Supplies.  Do be sure to look at that pictures..
http://www.hardwaresecret...eviews-Are-Wrong/410/3
 
All your PC components are connected to your power supply.
You've had what? (5) cards fail in your system.  There's also the possibility that components on your mainboard are going out of spec and toasting the gfx cards.
If it's not the mainboard, are you prepared to replace all your PC components should the power supply lose regulation and send a current and/or voltage surge that fries everything in your PC Case ?
 
A GTX 770/760 is 3 generations newer and more energy effiecient as a result,  so it's not actually a valid comparison as far as power usage and current draw.
 
And on a final note.
A 100-watt Marshall Guitar amplifier draws 375 watts of power at the wall.
Try listening close to someone playing one at full volume for more than a few minutes.
A GTX 480 under full load takes more power than that...
 
Good Luck.
Greene

Is this slightly off topic?

You can make a very simple oscilloscope for very cheap, but its accuracy is hugely unknown. All you need to do is put the input voltage to one end of a high resistance multi-turn potentiometer, ground the other end, and tap out the middle to your sound card. By biasing the output to the sound card, the load on the source remains relatively unaffected but you can adjust the output voltage to the sound card low enough to keep it from frying. Then you record the sound and look at the waveform. Accuracy is very questionable though since you won't know how much your sound card hardware or software filters the input. It's best used for comparisons only.