It's impossible to guarantee any electrical product, that's why you have warranties. Most problem components fail within 6 months but it's just as possible it will happen later on, it's just impossible to know.
It can happen, it really depends on what caused it to fail which can be any number of things. I've had cards die in 6 months and cards that have lasted over 10 years. In fact I've a 6950 that's been overclocked pretty much it's entire lifespan currently running fine in another machine
Again, this has no relevance to anything I'm afraid, it's possible to guarantee an electrical product.
Wouldn't have made any difference if you'd self built or not, you'd still have to RMA, just rather than a next day turnaround with PCS it would be a few weeks with the manufacturer.
Sorry, but I don't see how sourcing/building the PC yourself would have guaranteed that the GPU would still not have failed in 16 months (or less)!
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Why wouldn't they do an RMA? Have you overclocked or something?
Theres no reason they won't do an RMA then. You don't have to worry.
My RTX 3080ti died in 11 days. I'd of loved 16 months with it. 🤣
