> overtaxed consumer cards Actually, miners optimise for computation/kWh of electricity (versus computation/16ms of time for gamers), which leads to running mi

> overtaxed consumer cards Actually, miners optimise for computation/kWh of electricity (versus computation/16ms of time for gamers), which leads to running mining GPUs at significantly lower wear and tear level (lower voltage scaling, lower clock rate, etc) than gaming GPUs. > having ex-miner cards burn out is a pretty common thing on the used market. Having used GPUs in general burn out is somewhat common, but it's less common for ex-miner cards than for ex-gamer cards.