GPU Overclocking Longevity

[Mistafishman]

I spent last night finally overclocking my GTX 1060 6gb with +40% voltage, a +200 on the core clock, and +550 on the memory clock and it’s stable. I made a much more aggressive fan curve for every fan, gpu, case, and cpu. One thing to note, I do have my GPU vertically mounted, not sure how that would effect thermals. Once I’ve had a benchmark running for a a couple minutes the card gets up to 82°C at ~96% GPU fan speed which I know is a but toasty and I know it can decrease it’s life.

What I’m wondering is what kind of life span am I looking at? I want it to last another 3-4 years because I plan on building a new system after college (I’m a freshman).

Side Notes:

-I bought the card in 2017

-The model is a MSI Armor OCV1 1060 6G

-I get thermal limiting even though I set the temp/power limit to 92°/114%

-I hear thermal paste gets “crusty” after a year or 2 and am comfortable replacing it if necessary

-I can post screenshots of any settings (Nvidia Control Panel, MSI Afterburner, Fan profiles, etc.)

-System Specs are on my profile page

 

I appreciate any and all help as I’m relatively new to overclocking.

[Jurrunio]

the fans will wear out first, the rest of the card should be fine.

[Acid Panda]

well as long as it well cooled and kept free of things like dust it should be fine