Very durable. I have Original P-II/233's two years old still going, have
been 24x7 since day one. I have P-166's that have been going for 3 or 4
years nonstop on either crunching primes or crunching DES. I even have a
handful of P-100's, among the first original Pentiums, still going on
double-checking, quite happily. I've never had a machine die that I could
attribute to CPU failure. It's always been hard drive, motherboard, or
just a plain inability to keep up with the assigned task, which eventually
gets the machine replaced or upgraded.
At 08:24 AM 4/18/00 +0100, you wrote:
>I'm just curious really, but how durable are Intel
>processors to continuous number crunching, in other words
>has anyone been able to keep the same processor running for
>2, 3 or even more years, on a 24/7 basis. I do realise that
>Windows itself needs to be rebooted from time to time, but
>what about other O/S? Anyone care to throw a few stats in?
>
>Tony Gott
>Shetland
>
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