QUOTE(skylinelover @ Jun 8 2021, 06:22 PM)
But mining cards do spoilt after few weeks haha
At most worst than buying display unit monitor huhu
QUOTE(Bonchi @ Jun 8 2021, 06:59 PM)
I think depends on era. pascal era they crank up and gpu running hot non stop so they tend to be nearing the end of its life. turing and ampere usually run at lower power limit for better efficiency. I helped a friend to get an ex mining 2080 and it is running fine for a very long while almost a year+ already. I personally would whack some ex-mining 3080 tuf when it comes cheap and then do some custom WC and overclock to continue with my ITX projects lol.
Pascal era 1060 3GB, 6GB, 1070 usually set to run at 65-70% power limit so it ran cool, 1080 ti usually not used to mine ethereum but zcash at the time, power limit usually just left at 100% or even overclocked, ran hotter. 1080 not popular for mining because at that time the GDDR5X stock timing reduced mining speed, making it slower than 1070. A timing patch did came out afterwards for 1080 and power limit aren't high so cool running too.
I sold my mining 1060 3GB cheap to my cousin, until now the card is over 4 years old and it's still running fine on his computer used for gaming.
Instead of worrying if it is mining card or not, just get a card with official warranty still left (rules out 1000 series cards nowadays)
This post has been edited by terradrive: Jun 8 2021, 07:52 PM