On a scale of folklore to fact, is <div>there anything to the notion that </div><div>one can burn up a CPU by keeping</div><div>it at full throttle for an extended </div><div>period?</div><div><br></div><div>Consider just nominal clock rates,</div>
<div>not over clocking.</div><div><br></div><div>e.g., if someone, me for example,</div><div>was to process SETI data 24/7, is</div><div>the CPU likely to smoke?</div><div><br></div><div>I can imagine that a particularly </div>
<div>dusty CPU and cooling fin might</div><div>pose issues. Anything else? Even</div><div>that?</div><div><br></div><div>Some motherboards have thermal</div><div>protection of various kinds. Is there</div><div>an open software package that can</div>
<div>display where things are at? In the</div><div>olden days I think a motherboard </div><div>would sometimes come with a DOS</div><div>or windoz package that would do that.</div><div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div><div>
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