Long term gpu damage

[kawahira]

Hello, I have a habit of leaving my PC on downloading at all times, I turn off the monitor and leave it there but the graphics card is still on, I was just wondering if this would eventually damage it or if it turns off itself after a while when not in use? Thanks for your help

 

[chimaxi83]

Negative. Any risk of "long term damage" will be the same for your GPU as it is for any electronics you leave on.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Negative ghost rider.
Some of us leave have our CPUs + GPUs fully occupied 24/7/365 with nary an issue.

 

[bononos]

Hello, I have a habit of leaving my PC on downloading at all times, I turn off the monitor and leave it there but the graphics card is still on, I was just wondering if this would eventually damage it or if it turns off itself after a while when not in use? Thanks for your help

Newer video cards willl sort of turn off and since they have a really low power idle state. They also have a low speed state while you are just browsing or playing videos.

 

[KingFatty]

kawa, would you ming sharing more information with us - do you know where you came to hear about how GPUs could be damaged over time by being used? And was the information specific (e.g., something about capacitors)?

 

[Smoblikat]

There wont be any damage. Some people would argue that leaving your PC on is actually better for it than shutting it off, then turning it on when you use it. The argument is that when things cool they contract, and when they heat up (run) they expand. So leaving it on will reduce the risk of things cooling down and being misaligned.

 

[zaydq]

Never heard of this ever being na issue. You should be okay.

 

[kawahira]

kawa, would you ming sharing more information with us - do you know where you came to hear about how GPUs could be damaged over time by being used? And was the information specific (e.g., something about capacitors)?

Nope nothing like that simple curiosity, just wondering if it would be fine on and doing nothing for a long time, and a little bit of my paranoia nothing to do with capacitors

 

[aaksheytalwar]

Too much oc with continued usage on full can be a problem

 

[KingFatty]

For monitors and wifi routers, I've seen capacitors fail. I just wonder if some video card issues might be caused by this too, or do the video card problems have to do with silicon/chip issues?

 

[FalseChristian]

I used to leave my computer on all the time, too. But now I turn it off at night when I go to bed. This way if someone has gotten remote access to your computer (like what happened to me) they can't do anything when it's off so they'll probably go onto someone who leaves their computer on 24/7.

Also, make sure you use a password to get onto the desktop. My brother found a way to make a password unbreakable and easy to remember.

Someone get accessing my hard-drives up until a few days ago when I changed to the unbreakable password. It's so easy you don't have to remember any of them. Just use the formula for each site.

 

[nightspydk]

Did you have a look true the power savings features in Windows? As far as the Gpu/Cpu goes, they would downclock on a more recent system, with the right settings.
When you power off/on you might actually do more damage, than if you leave it on afaik. I think it might have something to do with the small surge of power emitted in this process, but it is a controversial issue.

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[KingFatty]

While there is speculation about why things fail, I think all studies that analyze the failure issues point to heat and hours of operation being a factor.

In other words, turning off your system is best because it avoids generating heat and it avoids accumulating hours of operation. If a component fails because of power cycling, then the component was faulty to begin with and would have been ready to fail regardless how careful you were. In other words, components are designed to be turned on/off.

 

[Madpacket]

The vidoecard, if well designed will have no issue being left on for many years, even under continuous load, nor will it have an issue being power cycled many times if well designed. In other words, if you purchased a card with a sloppy VRM setup, you could experience issues but if you purchase a card with a decent VRM setup you should have zero issues for longer than the expect usage of the card.