Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > What about the shutting down, booting process? I've heard several
opinions about it, probably from incompetent people mostly. Some say that it is better to leave the machine on without booting on and off, others say that it is better to turn it off. Supossedly in the booting process there is some wear (??). What do you guys have to say about this?
It has to do more with heat stress. Constantly bringing the machine from room temp to idle temp to full load temp (as happens when left off over night and booted in the morning), stresses the CPU. Admittedly, it only lessens the expected life of most CPUs from something like 15 years to 13 years.
More of a worry is running the CPU at constant high temp for extended periods of time. I.e., like a server with a high load average that is also seriously overclocked.
-Roberto Sanchez
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