Or Botton wrote:
>
> hi there.
> There's a question which bugs me for some time.. a heat question.
When a system is not overclocked heat shouldn't be a problem, or
easily solved by another fan. Note that most non-Intel x86 processors
are usually sold overclocked (Cyrix, older AMD, WinChip).
> Sometimes I ran software that takes a loong time to finish their
> job. But now I have a certain software which require lots of CPU
> power (it crunch quite alot of numbers), and lots of time.
Seti@home, distributed.net, MP3's ? :)
> I know that the box of this type is used for servers which work
> 24-hours a day for weeks. But is it still wise to leave it on like
> this for 5 days? (there is barly disk activity, btw. Its mostly
> crunching numbers in the CPU.)
Mine is on 24/7 , if you're system is not overclocked heat shouldn't
be a problem. Touch the processor with your bare hands and if it's
not to hot to hold it for over a minute things should be okay.
Also check you're graphics card (tend to get extremely hot), RAM
and chipset. Modern chipsets, eg Intel 440BX usually have a heatsink
of there own. If things aren't ok or you're scared anyway point a
common table ventilator at your computer.
Newer computers often have so called system monitors. Sensor's
checking things like you're processors temperature and are able
to either make you're fan(s) run harder or you're processor run
slower. Check your motherboards handbook for instructions.
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