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> That is the 'shock' you're looking for. It may still be a lot less 'shock' than normal use, where players have a 15 minute round, then low use for a couple m
by mlyle 4y ago
> That is the 'shock' you're looking for.
It may still be a lot less 'shock' than normal use, where players have a 15 minute round, then low use for a couple minutes, etc, for hours.. and then turn the card off.
Thermal cycling is known to be bad for electronics-- this is well studied and documented. Sustained high temperatures are also bad, but it's only really bad when the temperatures are really high.
- latchkey 4y agoI'm pretty sure my cards have gone through all extreme different load situations that you could possibly make up in your head. Certainly, thermal cycling can be an issue for electronics in general, but my experience with these specific cards says that it isn't an issue at all. At least certainly not as much as something that should dictate purchasing 'miner' cards or not.
- jiggawatts 4y agoSince you would know about every possible failure mode… Do you know what causes NVIDIA cards to have their output turn off (black screen) and the fan to go 100%? Been happening to my 2000-series recently but I don’t know what to try to fix: cooling, PSU, or capacitors…
- latchkey 4y agoMy primary experience is with AMD cards. My guess is a vbios or driver bug. You could also be running into a tuning issue. GPUs are amazingly complex beasts.