With proper cooling, there will be no negative effects. Keep in ming that those programs will jump CPU utilization to 100% which causes your computer to run hotter than normal. If ventilation is inadequate or a fan fails, your temperature will climb dramatically, possibly causing permanent damage. While this risk is always present, even under normal usage, running distributed computing tasks often means having a computer on 24/7 increasing failure chances while your computer is unsupervised.
Damon ----- Start Original Message ----- From: Josh Scilacci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: [RLUG] @home programs and your CPU > Does anybody know the long term effects of running @home programs all the > time on your CPU? I used to run [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I switched to [EMAIL > PROTECTED] and > now I am really hooked on [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] but it has > got me > thinking about the life of my processor from the constant 100% usage. > > Does anybody know anything at all about this? > > Josh > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug ----- End Original Message ----- _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
