> I would actually be quite interested in seeing some numbers to back that up, but I'm not sure if there have been studies on the damage of mining yet. The few

> I would actually be quite interested in seeing some numbers to back that up, but I'm not sure if there have been studies on the damage of mining yet. The few investigations have generally found mining cards are perfectly fine and if anything above-average in used quality. Because yes the primary damage is from thermal cycles, not just being on. And since mining is a constant load & constant environment, it has very few thermal cycles. And miners primarily care about efficiency, so they're power-limiting them[1] which further reduces strain on the cards. Fans might be closer to death than a typical used card would be, but on pretty much any GPU those are cheap & easy to replace. That's really the only "risk" 1: And before someone inevitable scoffs at this, it's common enough that this is built into tools like nicehash. It's literally "click 1 button" territory, not exactly something a miner wouldn't attempt.