Quick question: Whats the lifespan of a GPU that is running 24/7 mining? In specifics, a RX480 mining ETH 24/7.
Thanks in advance ppl!
They haven't existed long enough to be sure.
For perspective though, I bought 6 x HD 7750 back in Litecoin GPU mining days - ballpark 5 years back I think?
5 are still running abet all of them needed fan transplants (the Sapphire JUST had it's fan flake out late last month, the HIS cards only lasted a few months on the original fans).
One of my pair of HD 7870 dates from the same timeframe (HIS Ice-Q super-blower model), still running fine.
The other one I bought about a year back used, no clue what it had been used for before I bought it.
ALL of these cards have spent all of their time in my ownership either doing cryptocoin mining, or running the Distributed.net RC5-72 client (which is a different crypto program that puts a VERY similar load on a card to most cryptocoin mining) on a 24/7 basis with the only downtime being for fan replacement, system getting moved, power outages, moved to a different machine, or something ELSE in the system (usually HD) died.
If you keep the cards fairly cool, they should last a VERY long time.
If you run the Milkyway project on BOINC, you can earn GRC on a Tahiti card pretty efficiently.
