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Carson Waltz · 130w
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 ...
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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 · 130w
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/