"Matt Giwer" <jull43@tampabay.rr.RoMeVE.com> wrote in message
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Stratcat wrote:

"Matt Giwer" <jull43@tampabay.rr.RoMeVE.com> wrote in message
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At 24/7 you are not temperature cycling your computer which should
extend its life.

Not sure what your implying here. Tempaerature cycling is exactly what
will SHORTEN an electronics device's life. It's better to run

electronics

in a steady state environment, within thier specs.

And running 24/7 means no on/off temp cycling. And running WUs keeps
the CPU busy so it does not temperature cycle from idle to busy.

Sorry Matt.

I didn't realize we agree on this. When I read your statement yesterday
I thought you were implying the machine should be power cycled!

My mistake.

What I haven't heard of is the new top speed CPUs throttling their
clock based on temperature when doing S@H. If that happens above some
clock speed there will be no decrease in processing time as the CPU is
reducing its clock to control temperature.

I'm a little surprised we haven't heard of Prescott's w/stock HSF's
throttling under 2 clients. I saw throttling once when I was OC'ing
a P4C w/a stock HSF, and was using 2 clients. Maybe most ppl
running Prescott's roll thier own, and use an after-market HSF, but
I was pretty sure Dell was selling them at one time.
-- 
Strat