i will paste the people talking about the defects:
first evga customers
customer a:
"2 out of 5 eggsRating: 2/5READ THIS..could get a bad card.
Pros: 1. great upgrade
2. short length card.
3. inexpensive upgrade
4. Excellent support from EVGA
Cons: 1. Defective card. The card will seem to work ok. But you get random lock up of computer, at welcome screen, games, etc.
2. Noisy at fan over %55-60
Other Thoughts: MAKE SURE YOU TEST CARD A LOT! The card will act fine, then it would randomly lock up a lot in a row. Runing folding at home over night is a lock up. I can play games for hours fine. But then it will hard lock at other times randomly just doing windows stuff, or playing movie, games. Very frustrating to figure out."
b.
"Pros: The card was great for the first week, ran everything great crysis/company of heros/Bfbc. NO PROBLEMS
Cons: About 3 days ago my card has started acting up. Random freezing when loading flying around in wow. Freezes and comupter is un responsive then comes back to normal and repeats. Ive also laged at the start menu and my comp freezes for a good 5-10 sec for just doing easy tasks."
Gigabyte customer:
"A.A couple days ago my display started to flicker at random intervals. Sometimes it flickers black sometimes it flickers with inverted colors. It does this just sitting at the desktop and in games. I've tried a complete reformat as well as swapping monitors to no avail."
b. "Pros: Was nice when it first arrived.
Cons: Froze up one day during a game, and now freezes as soon as 3d accelleration is used - which includes at the Windows7 welcome screen if you have Aero on."
c. "Pros: This card really cooked when it was working, I had two of these babies running in SLI and SC2 was running on all max settings at 2560x1600. It was a beautiful thing.
Cons: All of a sudden last night games because unplayable. There would be artifacts and distortions and eventually the entire computer would crash. I turned off SLI mode and switched between the two cards and I was able to identify which card the problem was coming from. The card I bought first (about a month before the second) is doing fine however, chugging along like a champ. Hopefully they'll accept the card back even though it's literally one day after my warranty ended."
d. "Hard lockups/freezes with my Gigabyte X58-UD5 board after 10 days of use. Would first lock-up in games like SC2/WoW/ME2. Would then proceed to lockup Win7 during bootup! RMA'd motherboard thinking it was the issue, but dropped board in my i5 system and it also caused that computer to lock up. Luckily I was still in Newegg's 30day exchange window. 2nd card seems to be working great so far (crosses-fingers). Wish I got the MSI card instead..."
Asus customers:
cant find atm but i read about defected asus gtx460 soemwhere b4..with same isssues