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And do you have evidence to support this claim? It doesn’t make sense at all to me, there’s a reason why miners sell their GPUs at a way lower price than other used sales.

It also doesn’t make sense that a GPU that would be running 24/7 on a high temperature would be better to buy used than a GPU that is only turned on for part of the day, and on a high temperature irregularly.
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utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 2y ago 💬 1

Constantly changing temperature causes materials to expand and contract over and over again leading to failures. It's called thermal cycling. You can Google it yourself if you want to know more.

Constant loads are worse for fans but those are easy and cheap to replace

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Carson Waltz 2y ago

I don’t know, you might be right but I’m no expert, it’s an interesting topic though. Found this thread on Tom’s Hardware, its a good discussion: https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/gamings-thermal-cycling-vs-minings-components-degradation-which-is-worse-to-gpus-lifespan.3747493/