It's not planned obsolescence. We're basically stress testing these cards 24-7 for a year on end. Build out of warranty failures into your business plan, purchase extended warranties, etc. Your rationalization is ridiculous.
+1.
I consider it sort of lucky that the manufacturers still warranty the cards at all, considering the torturous non-typical usage we put them through. I would imagine there's some sort of "normal use" clause in their warranty contract that they could utilize if they wanted to.
What is abnormal playing video games 24/365 ?
Seriously, I don't think because it's used mostly by gamers that our use of it is abnormal.
ATI state mining as a feature of their card on their website.It would never come to my mind that an intel CPU would not perform it's job for centuries, how is this so different ?
I am personally monitoring my cards to make sure temps are never out of range, fan is ok, and heatsink is clean, ~65c in open air. I think these are better working condition than a gamer with a poor ventilated case that leave heatsink get clogged with dust .
Ok, you got me there (with the bolded bit).
A CPU is a much simpler device. I would bet that 99% of the time, the main GPU chip itself is not what fails - failure is usually due to some other component on the GPU board, like capacitors, microfractures in traces, etc. Likewise, if a CPU was integrated in a motherboard, you'd find that they fail much more often, but 99% of those failures would be motherboards, not the CPU itself.
OMG I didn't knew MTTF could be that low.