Degrade high end system

[xpower]

Hi everyone, quick question, is running the pc 24/7 7 day a week makes any kind of degration to the MB components, and mem,cpu,G card,Pwr supply etc?

not talking about an overclocked system :Big Grin:

[1ke]

These two sentences will answer your question:

1. To answer your question, yes.
2. Quality components will last a very long time.

[ripken204]

if you run any type of anything it will degrade.
take a car for example, if you use it 24/7 it wont last for very long...
if you keep it in a garage and polish it all day and drive it 5miles a year it will last for many lifetimes.

[RoadconeTuning]

yup but it'll be very minimal at stock... with that said i've been running my Q6600 at it current clocks for a year and a half now... and for a year prior to that it sat at 3.2 on air...

[ripken204]

and no one really knows how long components will live..
a Q6600 might be able to run 24/7 for 20 years, we just don't know until it dies.

[STEvil]

if you run any type of anything it will degrade.
take a car for example, if you use it 24/7 it wont last for very long...
if you keep it in a garage and polish it all day and drive it 5miles a year it will last for many lifetimes.

that analogy works pretty good actually, since you can buy a crappy plastic car and it will die from constant use. Buy crappy system components and the same happens.

However, buy something quality and it will last a LONG time.

Case in point: we've got a dodge slant 6 from who knows when as a generator for center pivot irrigation systems. It has wrapped the first hour meter (10,000+) and is over 4,000 hours on the second one now.

At 100kph thats 1.4 million KM