Quote from: jmfg187 on April 14, 2013, 11:30:44 PM

I was looking at a thread in the marketplace where the poster wants to buy cards that are not working or have problems etc.

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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=101624.220

It has page after page of people with fried cards, this makes me wonder if mining does some damage to them that gaming does not? If anyone has an idea about this please discuss because I am wanting to build a rig for LTC or NVC but if I am gonna be frying cards all the time it may be more expensive than I thought. Thanks in advance!
James

If you use your GPUs processing Unit at 100%, it will become very hot and may fail. Just use only 50-70% of your GPUs capacity for mining, this way it will not consume that much energy and will not become that hot so it may have a longer lifetime. Most miners can be configured to use GPU with less agression to prevent overheating/hardware damage.