The Phantom Inker's blog

This is an angry rant about something that is simply plainly stupid. Be forewarned.

Bye bye, NVIDIA

This computer has an NVIDIA GeForce 9600GSO video card in it.

I bought this card last August (or thereabouts) to replace another NVIDIA card that was dying (sometimes it wouldn't display anything at all, at random). I had purchased that card only a year before that to replace another video card that was dying (the picture would occasionally fritz out or jump around the screen, until one day it simply displayed no picture at all). I had gotten that card as a replacement for another card that was dying that was less than a year old.

In total, in the last ten years I've owned twelve cards with NVIDIA chipsets on them. And if you do the math on that, the average card lasted less than a year. In fact, there were three years in the early 2000s that I had a card with ATI chips instead, so that means the average NVIDIA card has lasted less than eight months.

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And so, in summary, let me say this: If you're an average user buying computer equipment, DON'T BUY NVIDIA. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. I learned my lesson the hard way, and I'll never make this mistake again so long as I live.