Chivas there are many manufacturers of cards based on the Nvidia chips so there may be some products less reliable then others. What I can share is my personal experience.
Since many many years I have allways stuck with Asus mainboards with Intel chipset and CPU and Asus graphic cards with Nvidia chips and I never had a hardware problem. I did once experiment with Asus boards with ATI chip on one of my PC a few years ago and let them away for driver reasons that put me in trouble with some of the software I used but had no hardware problem either. I have five personal built pc's at any time in my home (for wife and kids) with the configuration as mentioned above so this make for a huge number of hours of operation over the years. I agree that all my components are top when I build the machine. Plenty of power supply, top fast memory and lots of it and top quality hard disks, and full towers with lots of space and excellent cooling. The machines are on the expensive side but I for sure had drivers or software problems more or less quick to solve, but the hardware itself has allways worked perfectly and been fully reliable. And these are machines running and I can tell you that the kids do put them through hard work.
So the Asus GTX280 I have since I bought is just running perfect and is put through lengthy periods of heavy load. I must admit the board runs hotter then I prefer but apart from that nothing to say.
For the record I own no stock neither from Asus nor Nvidia and this is not some form of advertising even if that may seem so, but I do recognize that they have with me a happy customer with their products.
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