dwoodward
I don't know why anyone would ever want one of these trashy cards ever again. After buying one on day 1 of the cards release, i probably went thru 8-9 RMA's before EVGA finally sent me a GTX 480 as a replacement. Slight performance drop, but at least it worked (lasted for years tbh)
 
GTX 295 was such a fail card for nvidia, the people who didn't have problems were fewer than the people that did.

Your bad experience doesn't do me much for the rest of this topic, I call it a bad coincidence, the GTX 295 was NVIDIA's best engineering Dual CHIP VGA card, the GTX 295 Red Edition was just a tad better as it's G200-400-B3 GPGPU's were hand picked and it's cooling was slightly better the entire cooler was made of Aluminium and the heatpipes and GPGU's heatsinks were made of copper.
 
The Dual PCB version of the GTX 295 was more delicate but it did consist of much higher quality parts over the single PCB variant, your card died probably due to bad maintenance , which is the biggest killer of any VGA card.
Here a guide I made on how to clean this cards:
http://forums.evga.com/FindPost/1613434
 
That helped lots of people and it saved my cards from dying. Dust + heat kills hardware even many GTX 480's have died from a much similar cause also the death ratio of GTX 480's is higher than that of GTX 295 Dual PCB cards, so go figure
 
The simple reason is much cheaper solder, parts and thus lesser lifespan, although if well maintained and well looked after you can always stretch the lifespan of these card and tat goes for any type of hardware.
 
I am sorry you had a bad experience with the GTX 295, but that doesn't make it NVIDIA's worst, if that were true why are you the only one in this thread that had a bad ride with them as where everyone else finds them probably the best ever made
 
My Experiences with the EVGA X58 3X SLI & EVGA X79 FTW weren't too great, but it does not mean they were EVGA's worst of all motherboards, there are plenty of people that have had great experiences, to me they were the worst, but overall it's quite a different picture.
Due to my bad experiences with common consumer hardware, I only buy Server quality stuff since that type of hardware has never failed me and it's far more useful to me, that the all that consumer desktop stuff.
 

XrayMan
 
My 295 wasn't the red edition, but it ran like a champ. That card would take anything I threw at it. Only reason it's in the closet is, because I upgraded a couple more times since then.    :)

Which VGA cards did you get after the awesome GTX 295?
Have you ever worked with the GTX 590 & GTX 690? even those were not as successful as the GTX 295 as I can recall.
ChrisRay had Quad SLI with two EVGA GTX 295
s from EVGA I was like hah! that's a good idea also after having long chats with Chris, he told me that Quad SLI is finally performing how it should be performing.
 
Then after finding out about the EVGA GeForce GTX 295 Red Edition after seeing Senju's Red Sun System, I was hooked.
Senju's PC Red Sun gave me the ultimate idea to go Quad SLI with two EVGA Geforce GTX 295 Red Editions, they both gave me great impressions that Quad SLI finally ran the way it should do
 
Here Senju's Red Sun blog site:

 
Here is how he built it:

http://www.youtube.com/pl...ist=PL05B69E53035906A4
 
More here:

I know a guy who's got one gathering dust, pretty sure he sells tons of hardware here also. 

 
Post deleted. (This is the last time I can tell you not to sell outside the Evga forums Market Place. Next time you do it will be a warning, and then some possible time off from the forums)