I'd definitely like to make my computer a little more useful and lend it to SETI or Folding@home, however I'm a bit wary of doing so. I've personally seen someone fry their Pentium 4 from it running at 100% for weeks at a time (this was like 3 years ago). My CPU is currently OCed and runs fairly warm (tops out at around 65 C under Orthos)
What I'm wondering is if it's safe to run these programs these days. I'm sure they work a bit differently than they did years ago. And maybe someone frying their chip by it running at full load after a month or two is a freak occurence. If someone could set me straight on these things I'd appreciate it.
What I'm wondering is if it's safe to run these programs these days. I'm sure they work a bit differently than they did years ago. And maybe someone frying their chip by it running at full load after a month or two is a freak occurence. If someone could set me straight on these things I'd appreciate it.
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