Im a little worried about the effects of folding for 40 days.

[Kelp5127]

So I participated in the Folding earlier this year (March I think) for Covid-19. And back then it was around 2 weeks or so.
I want to participate again, and i want to give it my all with my 2080TI and my 1080. But i'm a little worried about the effects on the silicon for running them that hot for that long...
I know that things like graphics cards that were used for mining are often bad because they worked doing hard tasks 24/7 for long periods of time.
Should I be worried about messing up my hardware? Should I only have it go on medium to help with temps?
For reference i'm running a test WU now on medium load and my CPU (3800x) is at 90% usage and is at 80 degrees C, and my GPU is at 50% and around 75C.
I'm just really worried about degrading the silicon on my hardware by doing this for a month straight. Am I worrying for nothing? 
Sorry if this is a stupid question or has already been answered.

[Spotty]

Since you have a pretty capable GPU I would ditch the CPU folding. That'll help a little with temps in the system.

I'd also look at dropping the power target down a bit and that should help keep temps down. Also make sure to set custom fan curves.

[Alex Atkin UK]

3 minutes ago, Spotty said:

Since you have a pretty capable GPU I would ditch the CPU folding. That'll help a little with temps in the system.

I'd also look at dropping the power target down a bit and that should help keep temps down. Also make sure to set custom fan curves.

 

6 minutes ago, turtle3146 said:

So I participated in the Folding earlier this year (March I think) for Covid-19. And back then it was around 2 weeks or so.
I want to participate again, and i want to give it my all with my 2080TI and my 1080. But i'm a little worried about the effects on the silicon for running them that hot for that long...
I know that things like graphics cards that were used for mining are often bad because they worked doing hard tasks 24/7 for long periods of time.
Should I be worried about messing up my hardware? Should I only have it go on medium to help with temps?
For reference i'm running a test WU now on medium load and my CPU (3800x) is at 90% usage and is at 80 degrees C, and my GPU is at 50% and around 75C.
I'm just really worried about degrading the silicon on my hardware by doing this for a month straight. Am I worrying for nothing? 
Sorry if this is a stupid question or has already been answered.

Dropping the power target is exactly what I did on my 2080 for a while after the competition.  Even 150W is quite respectable and pulled my temps down considerably.

Although I believe the reason mining cards get damaged is not as much from 24/7 use as it is from people cramming as many cards close together as possible, so they run much hotter than a single card on its own.

After the competition I did notice the VRM heatpads had sweat through the PCB, but then this card was in an ITX case where it would hit 84C.  Now its in a full ATX case and running MUCH cooler, it doesn't seem to have gotten any worse and the fan runs much slower.

As for the CPU, that depends a lot on your cooler and if you are overclocking/over-volting.  My 9900k peaks quite hot at stock so I've generally shied away from using it flat out for long periods.

[Kelp5127]

3 minutes ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

 

Dropping the power target is exactly what I did on my 2080 for a while after the competition.  Even 150W is quite respectable and pulled my temps down considerably.

Although I believe the reason mining cards get damaged is not as much from 24/7 use as it is from people cramming as many cards close together as possible, so they run much hotter than a single card on its own.

After the competition I did notice the VRM heatpads had sweat through the PCB, but then this card was in an ITX case where it would hit 84C.  Now its in a full ATX case and running MUCH cooler, it doesn't seem to have gotten any worse and the fan runs much slower.

As for the CPU, that depends a lot on your cooler and if you are overclocking/over-volting.  My 9900k peaks quite hot at stock so I've generally shied away from using it flat out for long periods.

Thanks! Yeah im using the stock cooler that came with my 3800x but im not over-clocking it. Although im considering getting a tower cooler for it to help with temps. Im in an ATX case so that helps. and for sure after this im going to go through and replace things like the thermal paste. Actually come to think of it doing that now might not be the worst idea, its been about 10 months...
My GPU is hitting around 80C and the fans are at about %70. But I think im gonna drop the power target like you said.
Big thanks for the help!

[Kelp5127]

19 minutes ago, Spotty said:

Since you have a pretty capable GPU I would ditch the CPU folding. That'll help a little with temps in the system.

I'd also look at dropping the power target down a bit and that should help keep temps down. Also make sure to set custom fan curves.

Thanks! I might just not do CPU as you said, or drop its power consumption. Ive also thought about getting a tower cooler for it as at the moment it only has the stock cooler.

[Alex Atkin UK]

6 minutes ago, turtle3146 said:

Thanks! Yeah im using the stock cooler that came with my 3800x but im not over-clocking it. Although im considering getting a tower cooler for it to help with temps. Im in an ATX case so that helps. and for sure after this im going to go through and replace things like the thermal paste. Actually come to think of it doing that now might not be the worst idea, its been about 10 months...
My GPU is hitting around 80C and the fans are at about %70. But I think im gonna drop the power target like you said.
Big thanks for the help!

Which might also be my problem, I've removed/replaced the heatsink a few times and couldn't be bothered to re-paste as I was planning to replace the motherboard, got one that didn't work right, put it back in the old board, then Z390 boards became impossible to source for reasonable prices and I gave up, thinking I would just replace everything later with either Zen 3 or Intel once they launch PCIe Gen 4.

At the end of the day, there is no way to know how much life were going to get out of any piece of silicon.  We could have a good or bad part that will stress more or less under the same conditions.  So at some point you have to either be really paranoid and not do folding, or just be somewhat cautious and aware that it could reduce the life span, but then you could also get a power surge that fried the whole PC at any time.

[dizmo]

Don't worry about the heat they're designed to run at those temperatures.

 

[vsteel]

I wouldn't worry about it.  I have a 980 that has been folding for years going strong.  I run my folding rig 24/7 about 9 months out of the year.  I take summers off because of the heat.  Have been doing that for years without a problem, yes some can go bad, but they can go bad just sitting.  As long as you have reasonable temps I wouldn't worry about it.  I don't let my CPU run over 80C 24/7 and I keep my GPU under 75C.