What's the longest "24x7 running" CPU Processor that you know of?

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
Turning off the PC is blasphemy in my book.

You won't feel that way, once you grow up, and start paying all of your own bills.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: myocardia

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
Turning off the PC is blasphemy in my book.

You won't feel that way, once you grow up, and start paying all of your own bills.

Well, I'm living in my own place, paying my own electric bill, and I still think it's better to leave your PC on 24/7 doing something useful. Think of it this way - you spend megabucks on putting together a good rig, might as well get as much use out of it as possible, while that's possible (before it becomes obsolete). If you can afford a 1K$ box, you can afford $200/year in electric bills.

I'm going to be running three C2D dual-cores, 24x7 for SoB.

 

[cmdrdredd]

I have a old Mac that's been up 24/7 since 1999 when I loaded it with OSX Server v1.0. Running a SCSI RAID with an FTP server that I use for LAN backups. If I remember correctly it was around Thanksgiving when I set it up and I've never shut it down. That's around 70k hours or so.

it gets a restart every week.

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
Well, I'm living in my own place, paying my own electric bill, and I still think it's better to leave your PC on 24/7 doing something useful. Think of it this way - you spend megabucks on putting together a good rig, might as well get as much use out of it as possible, while that's possible (before it becomes obsolete). If you can afford a 1K$ box, you can afford $200/year in electric bills.

I'm going to be running three C2D dual-cores, 24x7 for SoB.

Yeah, I used to do folding myself. My electric bill went down noticeably once I stopped, though. BTW, I was just kidding you, anyway.

Originally posted by: cmdrdredd
and I've never shut it down. That's around 70k hours or so.

I think it's about time you invested in some new fans, then.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Originally posted by: myocardia

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
Well, I'm living in my own place, paying my own electric bill, and I still think it's better to leave your PC on 24/7 doing something useful. Think of it this way - you spend megabucks on putting together a good rig, might as well get as much use out of it as possible, while that's possible (before it becomes obsolete). If you can afford a 1K$ box, you can afford $200/year in electric bills.

I'm going to be running three C2D dual-cores, 24x7 for SoB.

Yeah, I used to do folding myself. My electric bill went down noticeably once I stopped, though. BTW, I was just kidding you, anyway.

Originally posted by: cmdrdredd
and I've never shut it down. That's around 70k hours or so.

I think it's about time you invested in some new fans, then.

the system is fanless though, at least the CPU is passivly cooled and the PSU has no active fan. The 80mm fan installed in the back of the case still spins.

 

[Dainas]

My Q6600 did about 2 months overclocked running a SMP folder without so much as a EUE (early unit end) before I upgraded to faster ram yesterday Far from noteworthy, but it was flat out on all 4 cores and before this machine 6 hours was prob my record before shutting it down.

 

[Rottie]

I have not turn off my Atari 2600 yet but I turn off TV

 

[taltamir]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry

Originally posted by: myocardia

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
Turning off the PC is blasphemy in my book.

You won't feel that way, once you grow up, and start paying all of your own bills.

Well, I'm living in my own place, paying my own electric bill, and I still think it's better to leave your PC on 24/7 doing something useful. Think of it this way - you spend megabucks on putting together a good rig, might as well get as much use out of it as possible, while that's possible (before it becomes obsolete). If you can afford a 1K$ box, you can afford $200/year in electric bills.

I'm going to be running three C2D dual-cores, 24x7 for SoB.

No, if I could afford a 5000$ then I could afford 200$ a year in wasted electricity... and even then I Would rather not waste the electricity and just donate the 200$ to a more worthwhile endeavor then a futile search for aliens (now if it cost me NOTHING I Would crunch away... but its not worth even a cent since they are looking for it in the wrong way).

 

[rasczak]

Originally posted by: BonzaiDuck
I'm trying to be forward-thinking in my approach to the household LAN. We're putting machines here on standby when not in use, but I've still yet to figure out how a computer doing server-duty can be brought out of standby with a ping from LAN activity, and then go back to sleep after say 2 hours of inactivity.

When you find out please let me know. I've been trying to figure this one out for a while.

 

[taltamir]

The best you could do is unify storage to a single computer... get large GP (western digital green power) hard drives and put them all together in one computer. You can turn off the monitor and the cpu should downclock...

 

[Markfw]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
I'd say you would likely get your answer in the Distributed Computing forum, there are people there with "crunchers" that have been going for years.

Yup ! If I wanted even more stability than I have (24/70 and rare problems) I would take my OC down more even. My best ATM is a Q6600 B3 @ 3.2 that hasn't rebooted or had an EUE for about 6 months.

My biggest problem is that I have to shut them down every 4-6 months to clean the dust out. If you have a clean room, you wouldn't have that problem.

 

[Amaroque]

Ran a P2 350MHz @ 525MHz for about 5 years with 100% load 24/7.

 

[BOLt]

I do too much upgrading to have a notable uptime record. I do try to get lots of time in between reboots, though. I think of it as extended stability testing.

lol

 

[Amaroque]

Originally posted by: BOLt
I do too much upgrading to have a notable uptime record. I do try to get lots of time in between reboots, though. I think of it as extended stability testing.

lol

You don't DC with about ten computers.

 

[hans007]

are you guys like expecting the cpus to fail or something? cpus dont have moving parts, i really woudl except most CPUs especially ones that can be passively cooled to last 15-20 years even if run 24/7.


the main reason cpus fail is because things that require fans fail, such as power supplies or heatsink / fans.

if you had a power supply that was not actively cooled and a passively cooled cpu i'm sure it could last forever. my router i'd say, outside of having to move apartments has been on for probably 3-4 years (Wrt54g) and it has some sort of arm processor in it.

 

[zsdersw]

The most long-in-the-tooth PC I can think of that has been running 24/7 is the computer that controls our phone/voicemail system at work. It has an AMD 586 processor (I think) and is running OS/2 Warp. We got nervous about the hard drive failing one day, as it's been in operation for about 11-12 years, so we took an image of it with Ghost just in case.

 

[Kaieye]

I have a windows 98se box running almost constantly to this day for about eight years. Its still using a k6-266 cpu in a fic -503+ motherboard that I built myself. It is still running eventhough I have changed the heatsink three times and the power supply twice.

 

[Toadster]

I've never had a CPU die, just got old

 

[sandorski]

The only CPUs I've ever heard people talk about dying were Celly 300A OCed to 450 and Crushed Athlon cores. Both those were severe out of spec situations.

 

[newmachineoverlord]

I had a dual 366@550 on a BP6 from 1999 that I finally took out of service when the power supply fan failed in 2007. I gutted it for parts (RAM, HD) which I transferred to a 600 mhz pIII that had a motherboard that could support 512 MB ram modules (had a hand-me down 512 MB that the BP6 didn't support.) I kept it running DC most of the time, avoided turning it off. It had a strange problem with turning back on (independent of overclock, not heat related) but was stable when left on.

 

[Markfw]

Originally posted by: sandorski
The only CPUs I've ever heard people talk about dying were Celly 300A OCed to 450 and Crushed Athlon cores. Both those were severe out of spec situations.

I had 4 XP cpu's dies, and their cores were not crushed. They were not overclocked, and working fine for months, when one day, they just died. I put a new cpu in all 4 motherboards, and to this day, they are still running. The only cpu's I have ever had die on me !

 

[tenax]

athlonxp 1.2 gig..has been running 24/7 aside from about 2 days in total for cleaning, change in power supply, addition of memory and change in video card since 2000. i think the quality of ps and mainboard (in this case gigabyte 7vtxe..had a 430 watt enermax for 5 of 7 years) speaks to longevity more than the cpu.