PC Hardware → Re: Seriously... What the actual f**k!

A constant temperature is better than a wild change in temperature.

If the miner isn't overheating his cards, I'd much rather use that than someone who gamed and would randomly have his card's temperature spike and drop over and over.

And how do you know that they weren't overheating their cards? You don't. Many of these cards are run with many cards crammed into a box, I doubt that the boxes had adequate cooling.

You don't know if a miner didn't overheat it like you don't know if a gamer didn't overheat it. A gamer can overheat and fry their card as well, even faster at times.

But when it comes to equal use, a card that's running at a constant temperature while mining will be in better shape than a card where temperature is spiking up and down with a game.

Yep, and a constant fan speed also will last longer.

Plus many miners will under volt and crank the fan to lower power use and maintain peak hashing performance per power use.

That will honestly be much easier on a card than constantly shifting load and fan speeds.

Because a miner isn't going to want the card to thermal throttle, that would hurt hashing performance.

IE for them it'd be better to run it at 99% and not have any throttling than to go 100% and have it throttle and cost you more performance than you'd gain.