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- From: eapu168@orion.oac.uci.edu (Lee Furnival)
- Subject: Leaving machine on 24hrs??
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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Organization: University of California, Irvine
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- Date: 15 Dec 92 00:42:43 GMT
- Distribution: usa
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- I am in the process of advising someone in the purchase of a new pc and
- have a question regarding extending the life of the chips. We will be
- getting a clone 486DX-33. There are 2 cooling fans in a mid-tower case
- and I am going to install a fan/heatsink on the CPU. Question:
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- Should the system be left on 24 hours a day?
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- I know many UNIX freaks who leave their Suns and NeXTs and Macs on 24 hours
- a day and they say that it is better than turning the system on and off every
- day. Is this true? Also, we will be getting a 17" digital monitor. Is it
- acceptable for that to be left on as well assuming we screen-save? While the
- logic of leaving the systems turned on has been explained to me from the
- standpoint of less stress on the chips, what about the hard drive? Will I
- be testing the bounds of "MTBF" ratings by leaving everything on?
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- Any info appreciated, and e-mailed info appreciated even more...
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- Thanks,
- Lee Furnival
- eapu168@orion.oac.uci.edu
- eel@silverblue.fac.cs.cmu.edu
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