I have a friend that selling his GPU that use on mining for a year. He is selling his GPU for only 30% of the original price. I'm planning to use to upgrade the GPU of ny desktop that I used for gaming and watching on Netflix.
I'm just concerned that GPU work under mining stress is very prone to early break. Any feedback from second buyer or miner that convert there mining gpu to typical gaming gpu?
I can tell you about the Rx 470/480/570/580 series,the old ones that I have sold many of them for gaming and other rendering activities after being used for mining for at least 2-3 years and 0 complaints so far.It means that there is not a direct relation to being prone of early breaking if cards are used on mining.In fact it depends on how the gamer or architect and engineer uses the card,if they run it and don't check the fan settings at all the risk of such cards being prone to failure is real but only of such cards,even other cards,I have seen gamers breaking their cards by not paying attention to cards temperature.It all depends on the behavior,on how good will you take care of such cards,if you will be careful to run them as good as possible then they will not be prone to failure early,I assure you of this.