They'll be (if the exist) the exception rather than the rule. Fans will fail long before 8 years of 24/7 use. Loooooooong before.
Many miners plan to replace cards running 24/7 after 3 years or so.
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Many miners plan to replace cards running 24/7 after 3 years or so.
I have 6 fans total across my GPU's. The bearings have gone in 1 and have started going in 1. They have been going 24/7 since the R9 300 series release in 2015. Another 5 years and I expect they'll all have started becoming noisy.
I never said they were still mining
Also that statement also implies that the cards them sales will be fine just the fans might be suffering
miners tend to undervolt and power limit cards. For reference.
I would probably prefer to buy a mining card than a gaming card, gamers are more likely to jack up everything in afterburner.
The people who do some research do, but i bet there are a lot of people who don't and will run the cards 24/7 for months at possibly high temps and overclocked to the point its damaging the card. I'd probably trust buying one from the MM, but I'm not so sure about ebay.
What's the difference between a brand new card and one that has been used as intended for 9 weeks but is in perfect cosmetic condition? like chrcoluk says gamers are likely to do more damage to a card at an electrical level in just a few days of use by pumping dangerous voltages through them and turning off things like power limits.
If you don't want a card that's been used then don't buy them used, "as new" is always going to refer to cosmetics because nobody can know what has changed inside any of the components.
So "as new" is quite possibly the most pointless word to use when buying a used gfx card unless your previous owner took a screwdriver to it, for fun. I've got a voodoo banshee somewhere in the UK. I mean it pretty much is as new.
I think it's the wrong words to use.
As new indicates to me 1 or less hours use.
As in a regretted purchase or didn't fit in the case type thing.
Honestly though, whatever this is going way too long.
I think it's the wrong words to use.
As new indicates to me 1 or less hours use.
As in a regretted purchase or didn't fit in the case type thing.
Honestly though, whatever this is going way too long.
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Mining is not that different to gaming. So I'm not sure what the complaint is and is a perfectably acceptable use of the card.
Do you ask all sellers of cards how much they game on it? Or how about when buying a CPU, exactly what processing they have done?
This is a silly complaint and you are lucky you can return items on ebay so easily.
Unless the card was listed as Brand New or Brand New (Other) then no one is saying it is new.
Do you ask all sellers of cards how much they game on it? Or how about when buying a CPU, exactly what processing they have done?
This is a silly complaint and you are lucky you can return items on ebay so easily.
Unless the card was listed as Brand New or Brand New (Other) then no one is saying it is new.
If anything mining is less stressful than gaming, there are fewer thermal cycles with powering up and down all the time.
OK over (a lot of) time the fans might wear out faster but that's not going to happen in weeks, more like years or decades.
OK over (a lot of) time the fans might wear out faster but that's not going to happen in weeks, more like years or decades.
My view is pretty simple, description says it's a used card, that is entirely accurate. Whether it has been used for playing games, rendering, overclocked, or mining makes no difference. These activities do not degrade the performance of the cards.