[corysama]

Don't even need to overclock them. Given a sample size of 14000 GPUs, I would expect a couple hundred to at least bluescreen simply from being placed under a sustained serious load for the first time.

Try running the FurMark stress test on any given machine. If you don't get glitches or a reboot, that GPU is above-average stability in my experience.

[HarryHirsch]

This is a sad comment on the state of consumer hardware. Speaking from my viewpoint as a computational chemist, a video card that fails memtestG80 is not merchantable and gets slung back at the manufacturer.

After a while you have learned how fast companies deal with RMAs and you know that factory-overcooked hardware is next-to-useless.

[ferongr]

>This is a sad comment on the state of consumer hardware

And also incorrect. A system crashing on a combined Linpack/Furmark load is defective or contains a defective component. Even extremely thermally-limited laptops do not suffer from this due to protection mechanisms.