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>>I think an argument could be made that mined-on cards are more well cared for than those owned by your average gamer. What strikes me though is people are ra
by NikolaNovak 4y ago
>>I think an argument could be made that mined-on cards are more well cared for than those owned by your average gamer.
What strikes me though is people are rarely discussing mileage, only nature of work.
The video card in my gaming computer works, on average, maybe 1hr/week (some weeks more, most weeks 0). So right out of the gate, my video card has been working basically 168 times less long than any mining card running 24x7. We are talking more than two orders of magnitude difference in "mileage", before we discuss how well or poorly it has been taken care of.
- belval 4y agoMy understanding is that it's similar to a car, changing state (starting/stopping) is much more damaging that running the same thing, at the same temperature/voltage for extended period of time.
- latchkey 4y agoI've rebooted GPUs hundreds of times to find the optimal tuning parameters. Failures after a reboot were very few and long term over the entire collection of GPUs, we've seen very few failures. Definitely within operating parameters.
- LoveMortuus 4y agoMost of the "damage" that happens to a GPU is due to thermal expansion, which happens at to a more extreme degree if you're cold booting a game and then from a hot gaming state back down to cold. Where are with mining it's usually running constantly at a more or less stable temperature, thus it experiences much less of stress from the thermal expansion side of things.