• Lemminary@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    I thought I was happy I went AMD until my card started overrunning its fans for no reason a month after the warranty ran out. I manually had to reseat the card on the PCIe for it to stop because nothing else would, not even restarting the PC. And then one day it heated up so bad it stopped working. I think they gave me a defective card on purpose because people are less likely to return the items when they’re buying from outside the US.

    I’ve since gone back to Nvidia and my current card hasn’t given me any issues. What a nightmare that was.

    • OrderedChaos@lemmy.world
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      30 minutes ago

      I swear that in my 20+ years of computer work that everyone has a story like this for every brand out there. It seems to literally be bad luck. That being said some companies just have abysmal and evil support ethics. And these days it seems all of them are trying to dial in the device failure to happen after the warranty expires.

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        10 seconds ago

        Sometimes I see people who claim to have these issues constantly and I’m assuming they are actually the problem. It’s a miracle that these companies are even willing to give warranties to delicate components that require some knowledge to install without damaging them.