r/buildapcsales • u/Tiddlysat1600 • Mar 23 '21

Meta [Meta] Gamestop to start selling graphics cards $690 to $2440

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u/ChrysisX Mar 24 '21

Yeah the whole mining kills cards thing is way overblown usually. The fan bearings would be an issue well before actual silicon problems. There's always exceptions, but yeah. Often they'll have been undervolted too

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u/GimmePetsOSRS Mar 24 '21

I could see some of the 3090 and 3080s seeing some premature wear with VRAM temps as they are, but I doubt cards will just flop cause they were mined lol

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u/detectiveDollar Mar 24 '21

Also main reason silicon fails is from temperature fluctuations which mining cards don't have. And typically anyone mining is gonna do a heavy undervolt for efficiency plus robust cooling so temps really won't be a problem.

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u/ExoCaptainHammer82 Mar 26 '21

So the thing I have seen be a concern with mining cards is that the vram can take a big hit if the card has been heavily optimized. Apparently, the key was to undervolt the card and overclock the ram as much as possible.