Turns out running chips hard 24/7 causes them to burn out
I don't have direct experience running CPUs or GPUs 24/7, but when I was looking into acquiring used GPUs I looked into this and it seemed like "burning out GPUs" was almost entirely related to the thermal paste cooking off and other heat-related issues. The tribal wisdom seemed to be that GPUs could run pretty much indefinitely if you kept their thermals under control and reapplied the thermal paste every N months.
Hopefully somebody with direct experience can correct me if I'm wrong...
Hopefully somebody with direct experience can correct me if I'm wrong...