I'd be more worried about the fans though, if they're not made with a long-lasting bearing. So there will be brands or models that'll be more (or less) prone to have issues with the fans.
I would argue that in that case, constant use can actually improve the performance.This made me think of when one discovers the sexual history of their partner.
So you're saying the card gets better the more it mines?
If you're a miner/investor, sorry.. but Yay! Ethereum is slipping today! Down 20%, from $1K to $800. Hope it continues. A nice slide down to $300 would be greaaaaaaat. Let those miners release those cards back into the wild.
Samsung is reported developing their own ASICS now. Hopefully they can solve the memory issue and then miners can get ******ASICS can't get back in stock/drop in price fast enough...
There are already cards being sold, but not yet dumped. It'll take a while longer of this to remain but the fear I have is that this bubble is still believed to be sustainable even though most will drop out when they realise they are the bubble.I won't get excited until the GPU dump happens.
I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that all the sites telling people to remain calm and now is the time to buy before the next spike are just trying to unload to the gullibleThere are already cards being sold, but not yet dumped. It'll take a while longer of this to remain but the fear I have is that this bubble is still believed to be sustainable even though most will drop out when they realise they are the bubble.
Same could be said for the calls of doom and gloom trying to shake loose cheap GPUs for the larger mining entities to buy up.I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that all the sites telling people to remain calm and now is the time to buy before the next spike are just trying to unload to the gullible
Exactly. There's nothing on a GPU that can 'wear down', either it works or it's dead.
As far as I am aware, not a single test has shown any evidence of performance degradation over time (due to mining or anything else) in GPUs, once the variable of drying thermal paste is removed.
Crytek should use that for their new crypto! You should pitch it to them.Tonight, we toast to doom and gloom. May the crypto bubble pop and stop holding our FPS hostage.
As a side note, someone needs to develop a crypto called FP$. A crypto for gamers.