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Re:Nvidia Limits RTX 3060 Hash Rate by falcolas on Sunday February 21, 2021 @09:36AM (#26213700)
Yes. It’s estimated that modern electronics have a lifespan of about 5 years. And they don’t always fail in obvious (or obviously bad) fashion.

Here’s a fun report from NASA that I love to cite (it is also the citation for my lifespan claim).

https://c3.nasa.gov/dashlink/static/media/other/ObservedFail...

Re:Nvidia Limits RTX 3060 Hash Rate by Delk on Sunday February 21, 2021 @10:12AM (#26214002)
In case someone goes looking for the source for that citation, it's on slide/page 37. It further cites another web page which no longer exists but is available at the Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20150906010133/http://www.aerosp...

Both pages are focused on aerospace engineering (and perhaps fault-tolerant systems in general), so I'm not sure how I'd rate them as authoritative sources for the lifespan of electronics in general. Possible faults in a gaming GPU might not be as critical if they cause something to fail once a year, for example.