GTX 980 life

[litro max]

How long to do u think a gtx 980 will last you I

Am a heavy game play around 6 hours every day

Or 4 well to some that's heavy and to some that's not but how long do you think the stock gtx 980 will last

[Jobbe03]

Longer than you'd want it for. 

[WereCat]

17 315 hours and 18 minutes

[toggleguy]

until you took it out and put a 1080 in it

[TheRetiredSlave]

Are you talking about "lasting" in the sense of how long will the chip physically function or are you asking how long will it be until games are too demanding for it?

 

Physically speaking, the chip should long outlive the amount of time that you would want to keep it.. Unless the card itself happens to be a dud, you'll probably be buying a newer and more powerful GPU long before you'd "need" to replace the older one.

[Wano97]

Longer than you'd want it for. 

^

I bought my 780 7 months ago, and I already want another GPU, just because nvidia released a new GPU

[H4X3R]

3 yrs

[APrettyCoolWalrus]

^

I bought my 780 7 months ago, and I already want another GPU, just because nvidia released a new GPU

So what should us 780 owners do?

[litro max]

I will like to know how long will the chip function I hear people saying that the 780 had a 8 year life span but I don't know about the 980

and I would also like to know about its temperature because I search it up and it does not show

[litro max]

Aprettycoolwalrus sell it for 400 and pay the extra 150 is what I will do also they said that 780 will not be made any more so that makes them very rare in the future so u can sell it as some rare pc component

[Wano97]

So what should us 780 owners do?

Whatever you feel like, I personally need a new GPU anyways because mine is unstable at stock. And I think that the new coolers are so damn sexy, along with the new features that maxwell brings us. Besides, the 970 is of incredibly good value. I'm selling my 780 atm and planning to SLI 2 970s. Also because I really want a color scheme

[Wano97]

Aprettycoolwalrus pay the 150 extra is what I will do also they said that 780 will not be made any more so that makes them very rare in the future so u can sell it as some rare pc component

Who told you that? Sounds like utter bullshit to me

[KamiKatze]

A Graphics card is not like brakes on a car that wear out over time and stop working after enough use.

 

GPUs typically die if the fans stop working because they run hot. But GPU fans are built like tanks. No worries.

[Briggsy]

no one will ever be able to give a specific answer to the lifespan of a graphic card, its not an SSD with a predictable amount of writes.  graphic cards die for 99 different reasons. the chip itself will probably last longer than anything else attached to the pcb, including fans, caps, vrms, mem controllers etc.. 

[APrettyCoolWalrus]

Aprettycoolwalrus sell it for 400 and pay the extra 150 is what I will do also they said that 780 will not be made any more so that makes them very rare in the future so u can sell it as some rare pc component

Please in the future quote me or tag me with @APrettyCoolWalrus

[Jumper118]

until you took it out and put a 1080 in it

or a 980ti

[litro max]

bro search it up on youtube hardwarechanucks said that 780 will be discontinued

[toggleguy]

or a 980ti

or a 980ti BOOST

[asim1999]

Or a Gigabyte G1 Gamer 980 Ti Boost Ghz edition.....