Decent miners will dust off and regularly change thermal paste and pads regularly. I actually prefer those cards to stock ones, so I don't have to change them myself. Mem temperatures and stock pads are a disgrace in most RTX 3xxx models, few exceptions aside.
Most miners will take very good care of their cards. Realistically it’s only a small few who never care for their cards which increase the likelihood of a card failing.
@@mindgr13 Yes they do. When it costs very little to clean the card/replace the fans but costs a lot to break a card you're gonna be extra careful with it. The worst cared-for cards that I've ever had/seen have been those used by gamers who never cleaned their PCs or smoked near it
@@mindgr13 Tell me what part of the card will fail on you then? Fans are the only moving part and the actual electrical components can last for years at full power
@@penn2093 A shortened lifespan silicon will struggle to keep the same clocks at the safe temp. (Around 80c). SO it will thermal throttle in a least. It could still last 1 more months to maybe 5 more, U can never tell!
Mining cards are like frequent use second hand cars. They maybe have more mileage (usage) but were operating at the same temperature all the time which is way better then 2 hours a day.
A shortened lifespan silicon will struggle to keep the same clocks at the safe temp. (Around 80c). SO it will thermal throttle in a least. It could still last 1 more month to maybe 5 years more, U can never tell! They usually sell them with either a new flash bios (down clocked) or be put into their less stronger bios switch (if they have one)
@@CoilWhine too big of a money to risk a second hand by imo. No electronics buy for 2nd hand over 200$ that's my personal rule unless it's something unmissable like a monitor etc.
@@upfront2375 Yeah, it would need to be a pretty good deal for me to grab a used computer part from a stranger. I know how much I abuse my computer components, I'm terrified to buy something that someone else has played with
@@davidjonathan2692 buildzoid said gddr6x are susceptible to degradation when used on high temperature for a long period of time, try search should you buy ex mining gpu
I dont trust those fairytales about how miners clean up theyr mining rigs even more than players. Hell no. I know 2. One with 2 rigs one with 3. I asked them how they clean up the dust. Both of them independently sayd air compressor once in 6 months. I asked them how about thermal paste and pads. They do it once in two years. I beleave 98% of miners do it that way. Those gpus are just tool to make money. They must be running online 24/7/365, not be offline on maintance for several days. I myself would buy such gpu for 1/3 price of a new one. The risk of failure of those cards is too high after 2 year of industry workload of 24/7/365 which are these cards are not made for.
Decent miners will dust off and regularly change thermal paste and pads regularly. I actually prefer those cards to stock ones, so I don't have to change them myself. Mem temperatures and stock pads are a disgrace in most RTX 3xxx models, few exceptions aside.
Most miners will take very good care of their cards. Realistically it’s only a small few who never care for their cards which increase the likelihood of a card failing.
@@mindgr13 Yes they do. When it costs very little to clean the card/replace the fans but costs a lot to break a card you're gonna be extra careful with it. The worst cared-for cards that I've ever had/seen have been those used by gamers who never cleaned their PCs or smoked near it
@@mindgr13 Tell me what part of the card will fail on you then? Fans are the only moving part and the actual electrical components can last for years at full power
@@penn2093 A shortened lifespan silicon will struggle to keep the same clocks at the safe temp. (Around 80c). SO it will thermal throttle in a least.
It could still last 1 more months to maybe 5 more, U can never tell!
Mining cards are like frequent use second hand cars. They maybe have more mileage (usage) but were operating at the same temperature all the time which is way better then 2 hours a day.
Paid 290 for a quik 6700xt hopefully it’s all good and dude just wanted to part with it😅
A shortened lifespan silicon will struggle to keep the same clocks at the safe temp. (Around 80c). SO it will thermal throttle in a least.
It could still last 1 more month to maybe 5 years more, U can never tell!
They usually sell them with either a new flash bios (down clocked) or be put into their less stronger bios switch (if they have one)
I'm more worried about any card running gddr6x that was mined on...
Those memory modules got SPICY
@@CoilWhine too big of a money to risk a second hand by imo. No electronics buy for 2nd hand over 200$ that's my personal rule unless it's something unmissable like a monitor etc.
@@upfront2375 Yeah, it would need to be a pretty good deal for me to grab a used computer part from a stranger.
I know how much I abuse my computer components, I'm terrified to buy something that someone else has played with
@@CoilWhine Exactly!
Crypto miners take better care of their their graphics cards than we do so to be honest, I think I'd rather get one of theirs some random gamer
Missed opportunity with Ian passing, the market will be flooded(with used cars too)
I feel like ian might have produced a fair share of flooded gpus too lol
Just brought Rx 6800 for about 308$ looks clean now I'm waiting to use it on my new pc
Just avoid gddr6x and non lhr, other than that mined or not its fine
What's wrong with gddr6x?
Genuinely asking
@@davidjonathan2692 buildzoid said gddr6x are susceptible to degradation when used on high temperature for a long period of time, try search should you buy ex mining gpu
@zno3 oh, so mined gddr6x is worse, got it
@@davidjonathan2692They run very hot
Can you help with my pc my drive is always at 100%
Task manager go to startup and disable everything expect virus defender id thia doesn't solve time to buy new one
Change your HHD with a new one ssd...
Here we have any gpu, it’s been mined on.
4gb cards probably haven't!
is any way to identify a used card using a laptop
Nobody is mining on a laptops lol
99% false.
I dont trust those fairytales about how miners clean up theyr mining rigs even more than players. Hell no. I know 2. One with 2 rigs one with 3. I asked them how they clean up the dust. Both of them independently sayd air compressor once in 6 months. I asked them how about thermal paste and pads. They do it once in two years. I beleave 98% of miners do it that way. Those gpus are just tool to make money. They must be running online 24/7/365, not be offline on maintance for several days.
I myself would buy such gpu for 1/3 price of a new one. The risk of failure of those cards is too high after 2 year of industry workload of 24/7/365 which are these cards are not made for.
Linus Tech Tips video says otherwise, go look at it
@@carpelunam linus there only talks about the performance, not how much life mined gpus have left.
Talk louder
As much BS as I expected this to include 😂😂
Totally false but ok 🤣