5 years sounds good to me, I'll take it  

If you play @4k, considering the pace the games have become more demanding, I doubt any card would last you more than 2 years. If not, it would be cool to have 5yrs warranty

I have 3 Titan Blacks with 10 years warranty, this length of the warranty applies only to the org. owner.
 
This cards are now what???..3 years old and they are running great. I Need cards with full FP64 and I hope my Titans will last me for more than 10 years I love them, I still have the original Titan that is crunching hard without a single glitch.
 
I have older Tesla that I paid almost 6K few years ago and in some calculations my Blacks can perform better then this designated workstation cards
 
 Just for the heck of it, I have a question. I'm wondering if my Black(s) will go bad (knock at the wood) and as we all know starting from Titan X to Xp those cards can handle less then half the tflops in DP calculations compare to my Blacks, what on earth I would get in replacement, this would be interesting.

I just don’t think insurance for purchase so small are worth it. Obviously it makes sense for cars, houses, etc. but most things go bad within a short period if they are going to. Get a 1 year manufacturing warranty, a good surge protector, and cooling system and save yourself some money.

I've had like 7 or 8 cards in the last 10 years.
I'm itching to get next gen already. My Titan X can do 4K but not at uber quality.

Worth it

To put it in perspective, 10 years ago I was using a 9800 GTX... Do you think I (anyone) has seen that card for years?  It's probably sitting in a dump somewhere or was melted down years ago.
 
5 years is ample (heck 3 years is plenty for most cases).  10 years is a crazy amount of time to warranty a card.

a run of the mill card like a 1070 will just last 3 years & I would not consider the extra warranty, but a grouse card like the 1080 ti Kingpin, it should last more than 3 years (you could always OC the crap out of it & put a water block on it), and I would consider extra warranty on that card, but we have no choice downunder, it is 3 years & that's all (why?).  I wish I knew before I bought that card, it is a lovely card thou

thanks for that furgusonll  
I bought the Kingpin as it is built to a higher standard from the high standard that EVGA adopt & as such, should last until I pass it on or I pass on
I love this card      I came from the red side & the last card I got from the green side was a 7600GS  
I got 2012 out of the box, all I did was adjust the fan profile

I also love the software      as opposed to the catalyst I have gotten used to
I will learn how to use the software one day to OC this card, but ATM, it is running a beaut on my 27" 144Mhz free-sync monitor

Cooee Vlada011
I just played Metro Last Light for a few hours now with "normal" tessellation & 3x SSAA and everything else cranked up     and I am happy
I still have a 6970, one from HIS, an IceQ X turbo X, in a spare computer; I got it when 4850CF was no good for Crysis 2, I got the bug then       had to have grouse GFX cards.  got a 7970 after that & OCed it, then I got an exact 7970 & cross-fired it; it did well for yonks.
sold it late last year to put it towards a Vega 64 LC, as 3GB of GPU ram was not enough in some games.   I was so looking forward to the Vega 64; man that was a disappointment of a card.  it was OK with my free-sync monitor, but I wanted it to be future proof for a few years as I won't have money to spend on my comp for a while to come, other things will take centre stage.
I read somewhere a bloke sold his Vega 64 for more money that he bought a Titan for.  I thought if I sell my Vega 64 LC for around the same money as the 1080 ti Kingpin, then I would be happy.  the Kingpin was on special too, so I could not say no; I still have not sold the Vega 64 LC yet
yes, this Kingpin will last me a while before I have to water it, but I wonder how games will develop over the next few years.  Crysis 2 & Metro Last Light really tested gaming comps, but they are not the newest games.
I wonder if newer games will be as taxing or it will plateau for awhile?   doing up a computer to run the latest games at max every year is getting a bit on the nose, everyone would just switch to consoles (yuk).  I will always have my PC to game on, I just hope it lasts a few years so I can pay off what I already have
I would just use the Kingpin on a 2K monitor so the frame rates are higher & it will be better future proof; unless you go 1080 ti SLI.  I prefer single card now with high frame rate than pushing the card too hard to do 4K at lower frame rates for a short period of time.  using 2K monitor will give you grouse frame rates for a few years to come
 

yes

10 yr warranty then

My last card was a GTX 970 which failed after 5 1/2 years (5 years of warranty). At this point the card still had more than enough power so I would have kept using it for some more years.
 
The cost for a 10 year warranty extension is about ~10% more.
 
In about 10 years this card will be pretty slow, yeah. (I fell back on a 10 year old card, playing on a 560 Ti right now.) Cards are much more likely to fail after around 5 years than in the beginning, so spending a few bucks extra for not having to worry during the 6th, 7th or 8th year is totally worth it - much cheaper than being forced to buy a new one at that point.
So I can use the 7th or 8th year to start look around what card I want to buy next - and if new hardware isn't available then (like right now) I can wait another year without having to worry.

ty_ger07
How did you find this thread 2.5 years later?

The same amount of time passed between between post #25/#26. I found this thread by using Google. I discussed it elsewhere and wanted to give my opinion here, yes. That's the reason for having a forum. You might call it necrobumping because it's an old thread but the information here is not outdated so why not discuss it here? Let's stay on topic btw.

I'll be back with my opinion on this in about 2 more years ....