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> Displays wear out far faster than the GPUs driving them, and just have much higher failure rates in general, being physical targets for thrown handheld contro
by closewith 5y ago
> Displays wear out far faster than the GPUs driving them, and just have much higher failure rates in general, being physical targets for thrown handheld controllers and what not. Doesn't seem wise to make the display so much more costly to replace by shoving the GPU within it.
Is this true? This seems nearly diametric to my experience.
- kiawe_fire 5y agoMine too. In fact I dare say the GPU has been the single most failure prone component of every computer I’ve owned for the past 15 years. Which only further illustrates the point that putting something expensive and unreliable into an already expensive device seems risky.