using a videocard

[okeee]

About videocards (with a fan): if you use them normally (no overclocking), how long can you use them approximately?

[mjc]

If kept clean and the fan dusted out regularly...longer than the card is going to be useful, software-wise.

The fans will last about five or so years, and then it would be a matter of replacing it to get even more out of card.

As for physical operation, a card that is kept clean could last twenty five years or more...the thing is the upper limit for most computer electronics has been reached yet, even a large number of the original IBM PCs are still electronically capable of working, they just aren't worth the effort to run them.