GTX 1070 24/7 mining lifespan?

[umine]

100% fan speed is not good as you will wear out your fans in no time. Best to try and keep fan speed below 70% for longer lifespan of the fans. Now you also need to keep the temperatures cool, your 60C is a good goal to aim for. You may need to separate your GPUs and either relocate them to an cooler environment or direct an external airflow over them such as a box fan. The other thing to watch for is power surges or brownouts. A good surge suppressor in front of your PSU is recommend.

As far as lifespan of the cards themselves, I have some 3+ year old cards still mining away. Their mining efficiency decreases over the years simply because newer more efficient cards are released, but they are still working just as good as the day I bought them.

But fans can easy be replaced and cheap enough. Fans are consumables. Besides fans with ball bearing have lifetime about ten and more years.

[Miracle_Man]

100% fan speed is not good as you will wear out your fans in no time. Best to try and keep fan speed below 70% for longer lifespan of the fans. Now you also need to keep the temperatures cool, your 60C is a good goal to aim for. You may need to separate your GPUs and either relocate them to an cooler environment or direct an external airflow over them such as a box fan. The other thing to watch for is power surges or brownouts. A good surge suppressor in front of your PSU is recommend.

As far as lifespan of the cards themselves, I have some 3+ year old cards still mining away. Their mining efficiency decreases over the years simply because newer more efficient cards are released, but they are still working just as good as the day I bought them.

But fans can easy be replaced and cheap enough. Fans are consumables. Besides fans with ball bearing have lifetime about ten and more years.

You can replace the fans, but many can not do this because of the warranty service. I for example can not really clean my 1070 turbo from the 3-year warranty.

[Cereberus]

Mining 24/7 with any Nvidia card and not just GTX 1070 is 2 years minimum amount of life span. The lower the temperature of a PC component the longer its lifespan. I don't know if fans at 100% will last that long but if the GTX 1070 is from MSI one of the best brands in graphic cards I think they can last at least 2 years too.

My Nvidias 1060 3GB ,Palit and Gainward are mining since last November, no problems so far, both under 70 degrees and with 80% fan speed. I am using them heavily overclocked with +200 core clock and +750 memory speed so I think for 2 years you should have no problem.

[juanichiloco]

I try and keep fan speed under 70 and temps under 75 and all has been fine so far. Just watch out for dust build up every couple of months.

[jv357]

Even if fans fail most of the time you can open them, put a drop of oil and they are back running like new. I have had to do this numerous times already with my 3 year old R9 280x cards.

[BlomBaster]

Graphics cards are sufficiently developed in a short time and some models may not be successful. I mean the power/cooling systems, not the chip/memory. Developers do not test cards for a long time, they do it fast.

[QuintLeo]

100% fan speed is not good as you will wear out your fans in no time. Best to try and keep fan speed below 70% for longer lifespan of the fans. Now you also need to keep the temperatures cool, your 60C is a good goal to aim for. You may need to separate your GPUs and either relocate them to an cooler environment or direct an external airflow over them such as a box fan. The other thing to watch for is power surges or brownouts. A good surge suppressor in front of your PSU is recommend.

As far as lifespan of the cards themselves, I have some 3+ year old cards still mining away. Their mining efficiency decreases over the years simply because newer more efficient cards are released, but they are still working just as good as the day I bought them.

But fans can easy be replaced and cheap enough. Fans are consumables. Besides fans with ball bearing have lifetime about ten and more years.

 Not always - my Sapphire HD7750 had a dual ball bearing fan, but the fan lasted less than 5 years.
 On the other hand, the HIS HD7750 cards I bought shortly AFTER I bought that Sapphire had all of their fans (except one) die in less than 6 months and that ONE didn't last a year - bloody junk "rifle bearing" junk.

 Dual ball bearing fans DO tend to last a lot longer in high-load high-temp environments than anything else though, which is why I try to avoid any other fan type on my gear (and refuse to even CONSIDER the new Seasonic "Prime" and EVGA "G3" power supply lines).


 Adding oil is at best a VERY SHORT term cure - if it leaked out in the first place, the seals are shot and adding more isn't going to last long.

[philipma1957]

Hey guys,

I'd like to know from your experience, how much will this GPU last if I'm mining 24/7 below 60 degrees, 100% fanspeed?

Thanks !

running a fan at 100% fans speed is a sign of mental illness. disagreement  with this is also a sign of mental illness. it means you are in a state of denial about reality.

set fans at 80 to 85%
see what  your temps are.

if under 70c you are fine.

when fans are in the 90 to 100 % range there is no real benefits for long term use.

and if a fan set at 85%  does not cool off your gear you are doing something wrong.

either over clock is too high or room is to hot. or voltage is too high.

[joshuaj]

If you control your temperature well, then you can have your card last afew years, but still it depends on luck.

[patofet]

I have my cards under 70ºC with the fan speed set to 80% and for the moment(6 months) everythink is ok

[mdikmetas]

my card 1060 eth 24 mh

48C %70 fan speed

[Miner4ever]

Hey guys,

I'd like to know from your experience, how much will this GPU last if I'm mining 24/7 below 60 degrees, 100% fanspeed?

Thanks !

If you limited power limit you dnot need fan on 100%, and life of 1070 card will be very long.
But that depend of card brnd and serie. But almost all have good lifespan.
I buy lots of 1070 when they start to show and 99% of them working without any probs.

[BlomBaster]

Any card has a percentage of the defects. Top class cards have a stock that allows you to ignore some defects. If your gpu have normal 24/7 first time they have chance work many year

[Sev18]

It depends, some says about 2-3 years, other says more.
Experts say it's important to keep core temperature as same as possible to prevent cold soldering.

[QuintLeo]

The temperatures of a GPU will NOT affect cold solder joints - whoever made that claim is totally clueless.

 100% speed on a fan DOES increase wear on it quite a bit over 80%, and is not generally NEEDED unless your cards are getting pushed fairly hard in a hot environment.
 A good ball-bearing fan is normally DESIGNED to run for years at 100% of design fan speed - used to be THE NORM back in the days before PWM fan speed control got common on some fan types.


 Dead fans CAN CAUSE CARD FAILURE due to overheating - but IME this is more common in power supplies (that don't tend to HAVE "thermal limiting" control) than on GPUs.

[Liquid71]

long story short, they carry a 3 year warranty in the USA for EVGA.  Their return process is spectacular so you have nothing to worry about till then =)

They do have the best return policy I've ever used, get the replacement before I have to ship them the broken card. Fastest turnaround which is perfect for mining.

[josh75]

Hello all :

i need some advice.

on ETH i do the OC : Core -50, Memory 1100, power limit 120, Target temperature : 75 degrees, minimum fan speed 60%

my 1070's are between 75 degrees

75 73 74 73 76 69 75 69 60 78 76 73 77 ℃

do you think i should do some adjustment of the fan speed ? i just started mining and i want my gtx 1070 8 G to live long.

thank you all for your help

unfortunatly when i try to mine Zcash

with OC : Core empty, Memory +500, Power limit 120

my card are going between 80-82 ℃

i have 440 sol/s per card but i think 80-82 ℃ is too hot.

if some of you have some OC for the Zcash please help me

thank you all

[httpb]

Hello all :

i need some advice.

on ETH i do the OC : Core -50, Memory 1100, power limit 120, Target temperature : 75 degrees, minimum fan speed 60%

my 1070's are between 75 degrees

75 73 74 73 76 69 75 69 60 78 76 73 77 ℃

do you think i should do some adjustment of the fan speed ? i just started mining and i want my gtx 1070 8 G to live long.

thank you all for your help

unfortunatly when i try to mine Zcash

with OC : Core empty, Memory +500, Power limit 120

my card are going between 80-82 ℃

i have 440 sol/s per card but i think 80-82 ℃ is too hot.

if some of you have some OC for the Zcash please help me

thank you all

I just got gtx 1070 8 G few days ago and I keep Power limit at 65% and the temperature is always hovering around 67C, regardles if I'm mining ETH or Zcash.