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Underage.What's wrong with a 'miner' card?

Underage.What's wrong with a 'miner' card?
Keeps joining unions and going on strike.What's wrong with a 'miner' card?
What's wrong with a 'miner' card?
Likely to have been run at 110% for hours on end day after day.
Miners do not plan to keep their cards for long so they don't really care. They are racing against time and they will try and off load any card at the first opportunity.
And there's no problem with that. If anything, miners take care of their cards more than the average gamer does - because it is his income source. The only thing likely to fail would be the fan bearings, and that's an easy swap tbh.
Undervolting pascal cards for even more efficiency was fairly common because those things were brilliant for it.
And the reason to quickly offload a knackered card, maximising return for the investment.
They're not going to tear good cards out of the mining rigs which are making them money and flog them on the cheap.
Does that apply to all miners?
£200 is expensive, there's a BRAND NEW Zotac NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11 GB AMP Extreme on there for £139.99
3 sold, more than 10 remaining, yeah right'o lol
Do all gamers take care of their cards?
There's always a risk buying used. The risk is just overblown for miners.
Don't miners tend to undervolt cards and their corresponding frequency to allow them to run at a more economical power consumption to performance ratio? GD full of so many virgins who have never even overclocked a card in their lives. LOL
The age old saying: If it looks too good to be true, it usually is.