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Article #719615Re: hot video card
From: Ross Ridge
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 20:15
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 20:15
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taxalot <tax...@meh.fr> wrote: >Something I wonder, in computing with general, is if heating can have >long term effect on the machine. Although launching a game won't kill >your system, how about running BOING or cloud computing stuff 24/7 ? I was recently reading a Google paper on the reliability of RAM in their servers. One of the things they found was that there wasn't a correlation between temperature and error rates. Memory DIMMs were as reliable in hotter machines as they were in cooler ones. Presumably Google used aquedquate cooling to keep everything below max recommended operating temperatures, but this suggests going beyond this with extra cooling won't help your memory. What they did find was that error rates were correlated with usage. RAM that was more heavily used failed more often. So at least as far as the RAM in your PC goes the temperature increase caused by running instensive computations 24/7 probably won't harm it, but the mere fact that you're running these computations could have a negative long term effect. This doesn't say anything about the other components like your video card or CPU, so there still may be long term consequences of higher temperatures inside your case. Ross Ridge -- l/ // Ross Ridge -- The Great HTMU [oo][oo] rri...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca -()-/()/ http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rridge/ db //
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