I think the author of this article is quite pessimistic. As said by others, there are many ways to protect your CPU, power supply, etc from overheating. Another thing: My computer, which is a little over one year old now, has recently had some of the problems addressed in this article:
"If the failure isn't catastrophic, the fan starts to moan, signalling that dust or other particles are in the moving parts of the fan. This can be very annoying but often, after it has run for a while, the moaning stops and everything's OK, right?"
My fan started to make weird noises a few months ago, but I didn't gave much attention to it, because the sound stopped after a few minutes. Last week, the "moaning" kept going on, and didn't stop after a few minutes. My brother and I cleaned out every part of the computer, including the power supply fan. I was stunned by the amount of dust that came out of it. After we were done, the noise was gone.
I also have an old P2-266 which is about 4 years old now. I'm using it as a server now, and it's (of course) on 24/7. Now, I never had any problems fan or heat related with that computer. I never really cleaned the inside, removed dust from the fans or whatsoever. Of course this doesn't prove anything statisticly, but my newer computer got this problem, and my older one didn't.
I don't think you should turn off your computer just because it can overheat. There's enough protection to prevent it. I mean, how else am I going to make it to the top with folding@home?
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Wasn't this already posted a few weeks ago, or am I the only one experiencing deja-vu?
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I think the author of this article is quite pessimistic. As said by others, there are many ways to protect your CPU, power supply, etc from overheating.
Another thing: My computer, which is a little over one year old now, has recently had some of the problems addressed in this article:
"If the failure isn't catastrophic, the fan starts to moan, signalling that dust or other particles are in the moving parts of the fan. This can be very annoying but often, after it has run for a while, the moaning stops and everything's OK, right?"
My fan started to make weird noises a few months ago, but I didn't gave much attention to it, because the sound stopped after a few minutes.
Last week, the "moaning" kept going on, and didn't stop after a few minutes. My brother and I cleaned out every part of the computer, including the power supply fan. I was stunned by the amount of dust that came out of it. After we were done, the noise was gone.
I also have an old P2-266 which is about 4 years old now. I'm using it as a server now, and it's (of course) on 24/7. Now, I never had any problems fan or heat related with that computer. I never really cleaned the inside, removed dust from the fans or whatsoever. Of course this doesn't prove anything statisticly, but my newer computer got this problem, and my older one didn't.
I don't think you should turn off your computer just because it can overheat. There's enough protection to prevent it. I mean, how else am I going to make it to the top with folding@home?