[Norrec]

Maybe you should buy from a vendor that doesn't suck, like evga. I have never personally seen a nvidia card die from anything that wasn't poor owner maintenance. And the problem with ATI cards is they are far behind in benchmarks and have been for awhile now.

These cards were from several different vendors, mostly ASUS and XFX at the time... but the memory problem was not limited to a single vendor. The vendors used the same modules from a single manufacturer.