How much torture did you put your GPUs through?

[adaseb]

I would say that one GPU I own I put it thru so much heat and torture for the past 6 months I am surprised it still runs.

Its an Asus 6870, I bought it used as one of my first mining GPUs. The previous owner mined non-stop with it for the previous 2 years. I've been mining it constantly for 6 months, running it at least >80C and it still runs perfectly fine. Fans are good, never accumulate dust and no HW error or artifacts or any kind.


I am surprised how solid built these old GPUs are.

The new R9 in my opinion are crap. Nothing but problems. Especially with the fans.

[zvs]

My GPUs have rarely run above 80oC, the only time I can think of is when the fan died on one of my 5970's and I came back to 100oC and it throttling itself so much that it was getting about 50/100mhash (bitcoin mining).

I think my power supplies have endured much more 'torture', operating in 110oF ambient, etc.

[guitarplinker]

I've been running some of mine for a year straight or so now. A 7950 of mine is now getting a couple HW errors everyday but still runs great. A 7850 that I've been using for a year as well is having a fan trouble but other than that they still both hash great.

[mailmansDOGE]

So much my last one (single) 7950 exploded!!    A chip on it liked Katy Perry and became a firework. Pretty sure it was due to some high voltage cause by o provider though.   

[DrG]

I have 4 XFX 6870s (some of my last 6xxx series cards) that have been mining nonstop since 8-2011.  They only put out 233kh/s due to heat issue but could do more if I wasn't in Cali-itsfrickinghotoverhere-fornia.

I have had more PSU failures than card failures, and of the 6 cards that have failed me, 3 were brand new R9 280X Sapphires which all failed within 1 month of mining.  The new R9 cards do indeed suck.

[TheMinex]

Enough to make boot only after 2 - 3 reboots, then it work full stable.  7850 that mined 2 years sha256 ( unfortunately not 24/24) + 1 year scrypt. Always clocked highest possible, fans always 100%, temps little over 60° in summer  ( yes noisy, but excluding that little problem at boot she is still alive which is not so bad for all the work done. I mean no future single asic machine will do what that board done, i'm thinking to make a showcase rest for her  )

[Starscream]

Enough to make boot only after 2 - 3 reboots, then it work full stable.  7850 that mined 2 years sha256 ( unfortunately not 24/24) + 1 year scrypt. Always clocked highest possible, fans always 100%, temps little over 60° in summer  ( yes noisy, but excluding that little problem at boot she is still alive which is not so bad for all the work done. I mean no future single asic machine will do what that board done, i'm thinking to make a showcase rest for her  )

haha.
2 years is quite impressive.

[ajareselde]

i started mining with 58xx series in the beggining of 2011, and every card i had then, is still hashing now.
allmost on all cards i had to change coolers / fans.
my advice is to simplay buy accelero coolers for your cards, that way ull have nice low temp, and NEVER  have to worry about cards again.
I dont know how they do it, but those fans are just doing their job for years without error, all i do is clean the dust every month off of them.

[Radelderth]

i started mining with 58xx series in the beggining of 2011, and every card i had then, is still hashing now.
allmost on all cards i had to change coolers / fans.
my advice is to simplay buy accelero coolers for your cards, that way ull have nice low temp, and NEVER  have to worry about cards again.
I dont know how they do it, but those fans are just doing their job for years without error, all i do is clean the dust every month off of them.

Did you push your fans really much?

[ajareselde]

i started mining with 58xx series in the beggining of 2011, and every card i had then, is still hashing now.
allmost on all cards i had to change coolers / fans.
my advice is to simplay buy accelero coolers for your cards, that way ull have nice low temp, and NEVER  have to worry about cards again.
I dont know how they do it, but those fans are just doing their job for years without error, all i do is clean the dust every month off of them.

Did you push your fans really much?

not realy, they were on about 55-60%
but those factory fans u get with your cards realy suck, thats why i advise everyone to use accelero coolers/fans.
i also have one hybrid accelero (water+1 small fan on gpu) , and in the middle of summer it gets 50C on full load.

[kearneykid]

I've a Asus R9 280x one of the fans bearings is on the way out,
when it spins up to about 2500 rpm the fan starts to come out hits something makes a click and goes back in!
i have only had the gpu for less then 6 months
however with x11 mining the fans don't spin over 800 rpm now

[Equate]

r9 series GPU fans are worst , I have both Sapphire and Asus brand r9 280x and their fans failed within 1 months . Quality of GPU fans is not good these days and they fail more often .