you're probably retiring your GPU way too early — here's how long they actually last

Owners with decade-old GTX cards still running fine say the real lifespan number isn't what upgrade-cycle marketing wants you to believe. Aliteq Ravi Malhotra · Hardware Editor

Owners report a realistic hardware lifespan around 10 years for most Nvidia GPUs

The 5-year mark is about performance falling behind new AAA games, not the card dying

GTX 700-series cards from the mid-2010s are still turning up alive in owner threads

Fans, thermal paste and power delivery fail before the GPU die itself does

Heat is the single biggest factor in how long a card actually lasts

Heat is the biggest GPU killer, full stop. Cleaning dust out of your case every few months and making sure your fan curve isn't lazy does more for a card's lifespan than anything else you could buy.…

The one thing that actually extends a GPU's life

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