If you are using linux there are different packages but they most are based off lm-sensors to get the data from the cpu, motherboard, hard drives, and graphic cards. There is a gnome2 panel deal to have it displayed in the bar on top, or you can also use conky and use scripts to have it displayed on your desktop.<div>
<br></div><div>Now I will say running your computer 100 percent for 2 years will be harder on the equipment than it just running at 10 percent. As for how much different it is, I do not know.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Tim Schmidt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:timschmidt@gmail.com" target="_blank">timschmidt@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
The Pentium 4 was the first modern x86 with built-in thermal<br>
protection reliable and effective enough to save the CPU from damaging<br>
itself in the case of catastrophic heatsink failure - it falling off,<br>
for instance.<br>
<br>
All of Intel's stuff prior, and all of AMD's stuff for some time after<br>
that could be convinced to cook themselves under the right<br>
circumstances. Sometimes with as little effort as a stopped fan, or<br>
dust-clogged heatsink.<br>
<br>
--tim<br>
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