my oldest AMDs are2.5-3 years old, with 0 issue, they had been through a lot.
480 series are 1.5 old or so, they also had seen some rough times, but out of 600 only 2 had issues that I couldn't fix, no one could
Topic: how long have your video cards lived mining 24/7? - page 2. (Read 656 times)
My oldest GPUs are still mining 24/7 since 2,5 years, with no issues.
My miners are with Ubuntu and sometime they runs without reboot from my part during 2 months.
But :
1) I use only nVidia GPUs (AMD suck in quality terms : too hot, too high power consumption, too noisy, a lot of issues...) : previous and current generation.
2) I use my GPUs at low power consumption (but I overclock at the maximum for this power consumption), not allways the the lowest, but the best ratio hashrate/power consumption.
I think my experience is not a good average of the mining world, but it is just to told that it is possible.
My miners are with Ubuntu and sometime they runs without reboot from my part during 2 months.
But :
1) I use only nVidia GPUs (AMD suck in quality terms : too hot, too high power consumption, too noisy, a lot of issues...) : previous and current generation.
2) I use my GPUs at low power consumption (but I overclock at the maximum for this power consumption), not allways the the lowest, but the best ratio hashrate/power consumption.
I think my experience is not a good average of the mining world, but it is just to told that it is possible.
Usually the GPU themselves last forever but most likely the fans will break first or due to human error they will get damaged.
When changing fans you apply pressure to the heat sink which applies pressure to the ASIC chip and can cause solder balls to crack. Same if you try and change thermal paste on an old GPU and it's stuck on.
When changing fans you apply pressure to the heat sink which applies pressure to the ASIC chip and can cause solder balls to crack. Same if you try and change thermal paste on an old GPU and it's stuck on.
Two of my RX 480 reference model GPU's died after 1.5 yr of mining operations they have only single fans and a way hotter than other, been lucky to get RMA on the first card, however the second card might be a challenge as I can't find my warranty receipts already. 
I have run a few of my rig almost 3 years, and the other rig 1-2 years. And also I have a new gen about 3-6 month running. The most important thing to keep your rig always in a good condition is giving them enough electrical power and regular maintenance also.
Electrical Power
Always calculate your card on the max power they need (TDP), more space safer. Also, we need to know about power, how much PCIe power can produce by PCIe 1x/16x on the motherboard. How much power can produce by MOLEX, SATA, PCIe 6, PCIe 6+2..etc.
Regular Maintenance
It is something to do in 2 weeks or a month. Check every cable rig, clean your rig from dust, if needed replace the thermal paste (can do it in a more long time period).
FYI: Am using R9 and RX series
Electrical Power
Always calculate your card on the max power they need (TDP), more space safer. Also, we need to know about power, how much PCIe power can produce by PCIe 1x/16x on the motherboard. How much power can produce by MOLEX, SATA, PCIe 6, PCIe 6+2..etc.
Regular Maintenance
It is something to do in 2 weeks or a month. Check every cable rig, clean your rig from dust, if needed replace the thermal paste (can do it in a more long time period).
FYI: Am using R9 and RX series
I sold off my asus dc2 290x's to buy newer cards like half a year ago but before that they mined on and off for around 2 years total. The cores went from overclock to underclock with time and changing efficiency, at first they ran at 80c but in the end were chilling around mid 50's IIRC. Half of them had some type of fan failure, some fans completely dead, some only ran at high speeds. None of the cards died but I did have to pull back the memory OC by a couple hundred over time.
From my experience, you can expect a new piece of good quality hardware to run around 2-3 years. None of those cards died but I had some dead 380x's and 295x's, lots of dead 775 socket motherboards and hdd's.
The longest running piece of mining equipment died just last week, it was my treasured Samsung 710n that I dragged around the farm and used to install OS's and troubleshoot broken things. It now only displays a digital snowstorm, for winter has come to claim it and its time to rest, farewell my friend!
From my experience, you can expect a new piece of good quality hardware to run around 2-3 years. None of those cards died but I had some dead 380x's and 295x's, lots of dead 775 socket motherboards and hdd's.
The longest running piece of mining equipment died just last week, it was my treasured Samsung 710n that I dragged around the farm and used to install OS's and troubleshoot broken things. It now only displays a digital snowstorm, for winter has come to claim it and its time to rest, farewell my friend!
anyone else been doing this for 2-3 years? any old school miners here? I would like to hear how video cards do under this environment.
I had radeon 7950s running for over 3 years.
Most of them had no issues, I only had to change fans on a few.
Sold them some time ago though.
anyone else been doing this for 2-3 years? any old school miners here? I would like to hear how video cards do under this environment.
I have been doing it for about 6months with a 8gpu rig and no issues so far. Running 24/7 and 100% all the time. My temps are around 60c on gpu
They will last for years if you are keeping the dust off them and the temps low
How long do video cards live?I just started so im curious as its hard to find this info out
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