On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Pierre Massat pimassat@gmail.com wrote:
Can it be harmful to let the cpu run at full speed all the time? Or is it just a matter of energy consumption?
It's not particularly harmful, but your cpu may run hotter and consume more power. You can disable the cpu throttling and thermal protection features in the bios usually. That's what I do with my overclocked core2 duo desktop machine. The performance gets bad at above 60C and you'll be in danger of damage. I've stress tested this one and haven't broken it yet.