15 Feb
2015
15 Feb
'15
3:23 p.m.
On 15/02/15 09:42, Chris Green wrote:
Not to mention that running continuously near the 'high' value will surely not improve the life of the electronics.
Well no it won't improve it, but running way below high most likely won't either.
The spec sheets usually say that running anywhere between the normal and high temp will have no affect on operating life, running between high and critical may shorten life (or give you secondary problems with BGA mounts etc) and running above critical may result in immediate failure.
Also what is high and critical varies depending on the chip, I think it is held within the CPU so sensors/acpi etc can read it.