And?
Remember the DeskStar, or DeathStar hard drives? Yea, those weren't meant to be used 24/7/365 but turns out that's how servers work. Gaming cards aren't meant to work 24/7 but we've all had our binge moments when 1 hour turned into 15 hours. Doesn't exactly give confidence saying mining cards get abused when they're under similar conditions as gaming, just running all day everyday.
I would look at mining as a very extensive stress test. If the card can't last under mining, it was a shit card.
You work for EVGA? That's exactly what someone would say if they worked for EVGA.
Waiiiiit wait wait wait you're being far to harsh now. In no way is mining 24/7/365 a reasonable workload. I just can't get behind that idea at all. Gaming in an internet cafe all day and all night yeah sure but crunching hashes no. Graphics cards aren't cpus they skirt enough physical limits fitting all those power burning components on a tiny ass pcb and trying to cool that with a skimpy bit of copper and aluminium to fit in most peoples cases while at the same time not bending the horizontally hanging pcb, which only gets supported along 2 of its 4 sides. That's why whole swathes of cards don't make it past 2 years anyway let alone the mining ones and it's been that way for years and years and years.
Not to mention cards having more and more owners in these mining times were in and the multiple trips in the hands of clumsy couriers. That's an untold source of failures. Doesn't matter how well its packed any drop with a metal lump attached to the pcb could cause traces to crack.