What gaming video card lasted you the Shortest?

GTX 970 at this point, waiting for AMDs 3xx cards.

Igroock said:

GTX 970 at this point, waiting for AMDs 3xx cards.

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All this. It's not that I have a problem with the GTX 970 despite all the hub bub, it's actually been a fantastic card. It's just that I knew it was a stopgap to get me off water cooling until the 3xx cards come out, if their reported monstrous specs are true.

The only card that actually died on me was a GeForce 9600 GT, but the one that was in my system for the shortest amount of time was a Radeon LE. I upgraded from a GF3 Ti200 but it wasn't as much of a jump as I'd hoped, and a year later I picked up a 9800 Pro and cranked up Operation Flashpoint to the max.

Longest running card is the GTX 460 that I'm still rockin' to this day (unless you count the Cirrus Logic 2D card in my Pentium 60 or whatever passed for a graphics processor in my family's 386).

I had an EVGA GTX 780 ACX that I ended up sending in for RMA after a couple weeks because the fans were making a fluttery helicopter kind of noise. Replacement did the same thing, so I got rid of it. :|

7950, great card over locked like crazy. Bought it as a placeholder have it to brother and bought 290x in crossfire

Man those were the good ole days.
On a side note its always nice to hear about stories like these from other users. Makes me feel a bit less unlucky about my current GPU.

First Place: ATI Rage Fury 32MB - lasted 3 days - I switched from a TNT2, and the card actually felt slower in many cases. So I was very happy when it suddenly failed in 3 days after purchase so I bought a Radeon instead.
Second Place: Sector S3 Savage 3D 8MB - lasted about 10 days - Terrible terrible performance all over the board (in some games slower than the Voodoo1), except the EGYPT S3TC demo unreal map. I got a Riva TNT 16MB in it's place.
Third Place: Radeon R9000 - Lasted about 2 months - I loved the card, but the memory failed on it, and they couldn't even replace it so I ended up buying an used R8500LE to at least have something in my PC.

6800 GT, 7800 GTX, 8800 GTS

The miserable performance from the 7800 GTX and 8800 GTS led me to jump ship to ATI. I was pretty pissed off that I couldn't run 4xAA in modern games with those so they didn't last long.

And then I figured I'd use the 8800 GTS in my work computer but it was useless in linux with multiple monitors. That card just did not meet my needs at all.

X800 in crossfire. Wanted to play around with crossfire after using my old roommates voodoo cards. First and last time I volt modded any more of my videocards.