is it potentially damaging to run a cpu at full load all the time?

[Walleye]

assuming it's thermally okay.

?

 

[tweakmm]

Damaging? Yes.
Will it shorten the life of your CPU from 25 years to 20? Probably
Does it really matter? Not really.

 

[FoBoT]

no

it will become obsolete/too slow before its life is affected

 

[GroundZero]

run it at 150%

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
no

it will become obsolete/too slow before its life is affected

 

[Rapidskies]

Yes your transistors will wear out, I suggest lubing them every 3 months or 50,000 Teraflops.

 

[Tetsuo]

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: FoBoT
no

it will become obsolete/too slow before its life is affected

 

[ThaGrandCow]

Originally posted by: tweakmm
Damaging? Yes.
Will it shorten the life of your CPU from 25 years to 20? Probably
Does it really matter? Not really.

Exactly... I think the old 8086 chips that were running at full load may just now be starting to crap out.

 

[HappyPuppy]

Processors are designed to be run at full load as long as they are properly cooled.

 

[aircooled]

Think of how many servers run 24/7 and all those old Pentium Pro's that are still running.

 

[IcemanJer]

Originally posted by: aircooled
Think of how many servers run 24/7 and all those old Pentium Pro's that are still running.

but they're not always running at 100% utilization.

 

[PowerMacG5]

Originally posted by: Whade
Yes your transistors will wear out, I suggest lubing them every 3 months or 50,000 Teraflops.

:beer:

 

[conjur]

If so, then everyone running a Distributed Computing application is in big trouble.

All of my PCs run 24/7 with SETI running, even my laptop.

 

[m2kewl]

i've run SETI on my lab servers for years, none has croaked from cpu failure...yet.

 

[Sid59]

yes. it's gonna die .. you have bad luck.

 

[OrganizedChaos]

hmm, what a coincidence.by any chance you play on In Por Ylem?