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Running your CPU hotter doesn't significantly affect the lifespan of your device especially for longer sustained periods unless there's some glaring design defe
by andromeduck 8y ago
Running your CPU hotter doesn't significantly affect the lifespan of your device especially for longer sustained periods unless there's some glaring design defect as happened to Nvidia.
So that's actually pretty well optimized.
- B1FF_PSUVM 8y ago> Running your CPU hotter doesn't significantly affect the lifespan of your device Maybe, but I've seen reliability formulas with fifth powers of temperature, namely for equivalent ageing of devices. And 14nm fabrication processes don't exactly improve my expectations of durability ...
- andromeduck 8y agoIt helps if you know 14 nm fabrication isn't really 14 nm. The biggest culprits are electrolytic capacitors and the lipo batteries but the batteries are far away and the other components are cooled by the air headed into the fan so neither will actually reach anywhere near the temperature of the CPUs. Apple also doesn't skimp on components like this especially when it's a core and obvious part of optimizing for noise so I wouldn't expect it to have an appreciable impact on the lifespan of the device.