Posted February 24, 2010
Manfromx: Don't worry about stressing your CPU ;)
Chances are you have many games that can keep your CPU at 90% capacity
I have a system monitor on my keyboard and games like Mass Effect 2 can push both my cores over 80% for long periods of time.
Teflon.Djinn: Actually, my CPU temps never crack 60 - 70 degrees C when playing even the most intensive games. On more 'light' games it will stay at 50 C. When I run linpacker (100% usage) it easily soars to 80 C. Pegging the CPU at that temperature seems unhealthy, hence my reluctance to use CPUGrab. I realize it works, but it seems like such an overkill solution to the problem. Particularly sincer there should be some way to limit FPS through the Glide wrappers, if I'm assuming correctly. I just haven't been able to find, myself. The only limiters I've been able to see in the wrappers cap things at 60 FPS, which we've established already is too fast. Chances are you have many games that can keep your CPU at 90% capacity
I have a system monitor on my keyboard and games like Mass Effect 2 can push both my cores over 80% for long periods of time.
If that's how you feel about it then I can't say much :D. Your CPU after all :).
My feeling is that as long as you have adequate cooling you can run CPU's very hard and if it shortens the life a bit it's most likely that it won't shorten it before it's obsolete.
Think about the 3d rendering they do for most movies these days. Those will happily eat up every free CPU cycle and they run them for days and days when doing a final render.
They aren't popping in new CPU's every month simply because they do keep them cool enough.
(even when my CPU is around 80 - 90% usage it's temperatures are more than fine even after hours of run time)