| I believe the nominal life of a CPU is 10 years of service time. That basically means 10 years of 24/7 being on. Let's say that running at 100% shortens life by 50 percent which by the way is how much a CPU life shortens by if you overvolt and overclock it by 50 percent. Now who among us actually expects our PC to last 10 years? How about 5 years? I would think that very few of us use a machine older than 3 years on a regular basis. If any of us has a machine older than 3 years it's probably nothing more than a file server or a folding or Seti box. Maybe an email box for one of our less computer literate friends. A friend of mine actually has a 386 from 10 years (?) ago. You have no idea of the ribbing he used to get for it until he got himself a brand spanking new P4 rig. Now he gets ribbed for that. :-) The point of all this is that running your machine at 100% is not going to kill your machine. At least not anytime soon. I ran a Celeron 566A overclocked to 850, overvolted to 2.0, for the last 18 months 24/7/365 running Seti. It's still running. I expect it'll still be running a couple of years down the line. I don't think I want it to be running 8 years from now.
Mook. |