how much does mining affect the lifetime of a GPU ?

vm1990

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Quote from: Buffer Overflow on May 07, 2013, 02:54:46 PM

Quote from: vm1990 on May 07, 2013, 02:52:33 PM

but if the card stays to hot for to long they will fail most miners aim for around 60-70C on ATI cards some go less i personal run most of mine at stable 68C temps and iv not had 1 fail in over a year

My 5970's run about 95C. They wouldn't be hashing anything at less than 80C.

yeh but im talking about single cards yours is 2 GPUs on 1 card if you want that fight my 4870x2 runs at 101C
also to cool it and keep it in the sweet spot change the fan setting to maual and set it above what its set at in automatic

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Quote from: vm1990 on May 07, 2013, 02:52:33 PM

but if the card stays to hot for to long they will fail most miners aim for around 60-70C on ATI cards some go less i personal run most of mine at stable 68C temps and iv not had 1 fail in over a year

My 5970's run about 95C. They wouldn't be hashing anything at less than 80C.

vm1990

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it dosnt atually affect them as much as most people think. the thing that kills gpus is changes in heat from c old to warm to hot and back down as this creates cracks under the GPU chips also known as red ring of death for xbox and yellow light of death for PS3.... if your careful with GPUS keep them at a stable temperature they will last LONGER than if you used it for gaming, when gaming the GPU goes up and down in temp but when mining they stay at locked speeds and stable temps

but if the card stays to hot for to long they will fail most miners aim for around 60-70C on ATI cards some go less i personal run most of mine at stable 68C temps and iv not had 1 fail in over a year

the most likely thing to fail when mining is the VRM controls the voltage and very very few people get there cards to 100% usage and ontop of all of that ATI cards are designed with a pretty decent overclock headroom so most miners running with small overclocks are still within the safety

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I read somewhere once that consumer level graphics cards aren't really designed to be running 24/7 under maximum load.
But your CPU's can run fine 24/7/365 at 100%, no problem.

JibbsIsMe

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My GPU has been running probably an average of 16 hours a day since January 2013. It's a Gigabyte 7970, and the only problem so far is that the fans are now loud when they're on max speed.

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I don't think anyone has researched this.
Going around and looking for people who had there cards fried by intensive usage would be the best guess...

If someone actually wanted to test this, it would require tens of GPUs (bought with cash from their own pocket).
After that multiple PC's would have to be run thousands of hours with and without stress just to get a vague idea.

There was an interesting article on E-sports which 'accidentally' added a miner to their software.
Read the article, but keep in mind a lot of these computers were not prepared properely for mining!
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/05/01/217230/e-sports-league-stuffed-bitcoin-mining-code-inside-client-software

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has there been any studies on how mining affects the lifetime of a GPU ?

24/7, 12/7 and control would be a nice study

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