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I think it's pretty safe to say that anyone who's purchased an electronic

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dudad of some sort has experienced performance degradation over time how's

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that iPhone 4 running for you these days but what exactly causes your devices to

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go from hero to zero over a span of just

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a few

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years cooler Master's master case maker 5 features their free form modular

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system allowing you to customize adjust and upgrade make it yours at the link in

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the video description so today's investigation was actually inspired by a

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conversation thread that I saw over on Reddit about the Radeon rx480 graphics

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card announcement video we did with Raja caduri from AMD where one of the

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commenters suggested that AMD's practice

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of loaning graphics cards to reviewers then asking them to send them along to

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another reviewer could hurt their benchmark scores due to the cards

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becoming worn out the back and forth discussion that followed is something

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that I've seen a fair number of times in the context of whether or not it's safe

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to buy used computer parts especially cards that have been used for

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cryptocurrency mining but it's one that I've never seen actually tested now the

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problem is that new hardware is impossible to go forward in time and

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make old so no investigation into like a

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GTX 1080s performance degradation over time can really be done and that old

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Hardware is very very difficult to find

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in still brand new condition that is to say unless you've got friends in low places

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like evga's warehouse for example where

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just such a thing was found by my bud Jacob over there this is a brand banking

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new still sealed reference GTX 480 a

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6-year-old graphics card and this is a

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reference GTX 480 that was extensively used for benchmarking moved to my

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personal rig then used for benchmarking some more with plenty of rough Linus

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Tech tips handling in between so if there's any card that could have

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degraded due to hard use mistreatment or heat this gtx480 is it so let's unbox

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the new one and see if this one's

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performance has

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degraded wow this is not my most graceful unboxing ever it's all right

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it's not really the point of the video man it's so crazy to see uh such an old

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product new

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packaging yeah there you have it brand new no hm

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no I just ha taking that off brand new shiny and you could tell

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if they had packaged up a used one and sent it to me because the thing about

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480s is this surface stains when you touch it so you can tell this is

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legitimately brand new and has been sitting in that box for somewhere

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between 4 and 1 half to 6 years because

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it is pristine so there it

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is that's our

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card so I'm back from all my testing and

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uh let's run through the results here for my test bench to avoid any hardware

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bottlenecks oh that's still running warm I'll be using a very different class of

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Hardware than what was available in the GTX 480 era a core i7 5960x 8 Core

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Extreme Edition 128 gigs of ddr4 RAM and

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all of that running on an ASUS 99 Deluxe 2 motherboard and I'll be beginning this

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then with a look at temperatures and raw

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clock speeds compared to what is advertised if the card is actually

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throttling down while under heavy load then a discrepancy here could save me a

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lot of trouble running any other tests for this I used our Crisis 3 Skybox

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thermal test which is both real world and one that puts the card under 100%

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load spiking it up to almost 90° on the

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GPU core even on an open air test bench

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with a fan blowing down on it a reminder

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to the Fanboys out there that life is regrettably not as simple as AMD cards

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run hot or NVIDIA has better drivers it

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varies significantly from product to

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product anyway speaking of varying

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significantly they didn't both cards behaved identically here after 10

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minutes with our brand new card requiring 1% more fan speed for the same

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701 MHz core clock and 90° operating

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temperature let's move on to other tests then 3D Mark usually has some variation

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from run to run but both of my 480s got

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shot on just about equally with futur Mark comparing our rig here to a gaming

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laptop from 2013 in spite of the Bey

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CPU but let's run some real games then

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Crisis 3 at High details and textures

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shows us that the gtx480 is still a reasonably competent gaming card whether

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it's brand new or very old and I guess

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this test is also a testament to the repeatability of our Crisis 3 Benchmark

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run because they came in pretty damn near the same the canned benchmarks in

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Batman Arkham Origins and Grand Theft Auto 5 tell a similar story leading us

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finally anticlimactically to the conclusion

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other than their cooling fans which will whine or stop outright when they fail

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video cards like most computer hardware

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have no moving parts and therefore do not generally suffer from gradually

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declining performance from use over an extended period of time in the same way

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that let's say a stick of chewing gum would which does not mean that they

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don't wear out electron migration the moment mum of electrons eventually

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causing atoms to move can cause circuits

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to fail and this is made worse by heat

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or by overclocking it's just that the way that

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they fail is not generally gradual or

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predictable it's more like the way that the roof of your house would fail it

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totally works until such time as it

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doesn't totally work and you get water on your head and it's time for a new one

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so if your iPhone or your laptop like a

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video card doesn't have any moving parts then based on our testing today the

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reason for its slowdown that is to say if its storage device is still running

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well is more likely to do with software

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with bloated applications like anti- malware packages or malware itself pick

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your poison right running in the background and operating system updates

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that are designed with more overhead for

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newer faster Hardware being the most common

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