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Is it safe to let my CPU get fairly hot for extended periods of time on a regular basis?
- Thread starter Akagi
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Really? £15,000 not £1500?If so I won't feel quite so bad paying my £40 bill at the end of the month instead of the ~£400/month bill you were paying.
£15k would be an average of about 4 KW every moment of the day. It's doable with maybe 8 GPU machines crunching away.
Yes 4 units an hour.
I had a lot of PC's running 24/7
More recently i was using GPU's and they are power hungry.
Pairs of 8800's in each PC, then 260's and on to Keplers mostly 470's
I did get a visit from the constabulery to check if i was growing weed.
Because of the heat in the house i moved some of the PC's outside to the garden shed.
This showed up on the thermal camera.
I had a lot of PC's running 24/7
More recently i was using GPU's and they are power hungry.
Pairs of 8800's in each PC, then 260's and on to Keplers mostly 470's
I did get a visit from the constabulery to check if i was growing weed.
Because of the heat in the house i moved some of the PC's outside to the garden shed.
This showed up on the thermal camera.
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You only really have to worry about lifetime degredation over 80C (even with more recent advancements in the material tech). Even then you should get around 5 years and quite possibly more before it died or showed signs of instability. However going upto 90C would be a big decrease in lifetime again.