Does altering the power limit in MSI Afterburner significantly shorten a GPU's lifespan?

[xX_TrashName_Xx]

Three months ago I transformed my ASUS TURBO GTX 1080 Ti (blower card) into an AIO-water-cooled card using the NZXT G12 bracket, a Corsair H75, a BeQuiet 1800RPM 92mm fan to cool the VRMs and additional copper heat sinks applied with thermal pads on the VRAMs and also the VRMs.

 

Considering the time I already have the card, it's safe to say that I'm pretty much a newbie to overclocking since I wasn't even able to uphold 1911 MHz core load in 3DMark without tweaking the temp limit, which resulted in temperatures of up to 90 degrees Celsius.

 

Now that it's water-cooled I'm able to achieve 2063 MHz core load and 6013 MHz memory load and even more when tweaking the power limit to 120% in Afterburner. The change in temps is also astonishing: Now the GPU would not hit more than 38 degrees with maximum speed on the radiator fans and 43 degrees with way less audible fan speed.

 

My question is: Does increasing the power limit shorten a GPU's lifespan?

 

I've already read that the main problem with increasing it are the temps but I've did some testing with stock load with 100% power and the said overclock with 120% and didn't see any difference in both temperature and stability (overlocked settings are slightly more stable with around 99.7% stability in Time Spy Extreme Stress Test in 3DMark

So is it safe to leave it the settings as they are? 

 

 

 

[thisforumsucksassdeletemya]

No. Not at all.

[gepowr]

4 minutes ago, xX_TrashName_Xx said:

Three months ago I transformed my ASUS TURBO GTX 1080 Ti (blower card) into an AIO-water-cooled card using the NZXT G12 bracket, a Corsair H75, a BeQuiet 1800RPM 92mm fan to cool the VRMs and additional copper heat sinks applied with thermal pads on the VRAMs and also the VRMs.

 

Considering the time I already have the card, it's safe to say that I'm pretty much a newbie to overclocking since I wasn't even able to uphold 1911 MHz core load in 3DMark without tweaking the temp limit, which resulted in temperatures of up to 90 degrees Celsius.

 

Now that it's water-cooled I'm able to achieve 2063 MHz core load and 6013 MHz memory load and even more when tweaking the power limit to 120% in Afterburner. The change in temps is also astonishing: Now the GPU would not hit more than 38 degrees with maximum speed on the radiator fans and 43 degrees with way less audible fan speed.

 

My question is: Does increasing the power limit shorten a GPU's lifespan?

 

I've already read that the main problem with increasing it are the temps but I've did some testing with stock load with 100% power and the said overclock with 120% and didn't see any difference in both temperature and stability (overlocked settings are slightly more stable with around 99.7% stability in Time Spy Extreme Stress Test in 3DMark

So is it safe to leave it the settings as they are? 

 

 

 

 

Damn. That looks pretty awesome with the bequiet fan. Well done.

So increasing the power limit basically allows more current to flow through your card. More current could lead to a slightly lower lifespan due to more heat generated and therfore faster degradation. But with your temps i wouldn't worry at all. Components these days are pretty solid and will still work long after they've become obsolete (even when overclocked).

[xg32]

the 900, 1000 and rtx series are largely power limited, as long as temps are under control it will not significantly change its lifespan.

 

But if the mod, or say a 500w bios on the 2080 ti, i'd hazard a guess that it'll cut into the lifespan on current alone.

[Jurrunio]

23 minutes ago, xX_TrashName_Xx said:

Does increasing the power limit shorten a GPU's lifespan?

insignificantly, yes. You're pushing more current through it after all. 

[xX_TrashName_Xx]

25 minutes ago, gepowr said:

Damn. That looks pretty awesome with the bequiet fan. Well done.

So increasing the power limit basically allows more current to flow through your card. More current could lead to a slightly lower lifespan due to more heat generated and therfore faster degradation. But with your temps i wouldn't worry at all. Components these days are pretty solid and will still work long after they've become obsolete (even when overclocked).

Thanks for the compliment. Got the card for 590€ at Saturn.de (I live in Austria but German shops are sometimes cheaper) with the "Mehrwertsteuer-Aktion" and before receiving it at the pick up in store I got to turn a fortune wheel and won 100€ off my purchase, so I just paid 490€ for the card itself.

 

The G12, H75, extra fan and heat sinks were another 120€, so in total the project cost me just 610€. 

 

 

 

[gepowr]

1 minute ago, xX_TrashName_Xx said:

Thanks for the compliment. Got the card for 590€ at Saturn.de (I live in Austria but German shops are sometimes cheaper) with the "Mehrwertsteuer-Aktion" and before receiving it at the pick up in store I got to turn a fortune wheel and won 100€ off my purchase, so I just paid 490€ for the card itself.

 

The G12, H75, extra fan and heat sinks were another 120€, so in total the project cost me just 610€. 

 

 

 

That's awesome! I bought a blower card aswell. They're pretty cheap and relatively easy to upgrade to a different cooler (upgraded to an arctic accelero twin turbo ii yesterday). Enjoy your rig!