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Reged: 05/09/05
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Posts: 3989
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Loc: Waltham, MA
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Re: About always-on
12/25/10 08:09 AM
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> As long as you can keep the temperature semi-consistent, it isn't going to matter > which route you go. The only components that will suffer drastically from long term > consistent use are the capacitors, and cooling fans. If you go quality on both of > those often you won't see an issue throughout a reasonable life cycle.
I've found that fans are probably the component that I've had to replace most often. For fans, quality seems to be inversely proportional to size. Those shitty little northbridge fans have failed on just about every machine I've ever had that had one. Video card fans are probably the next most common, followed by CPU. I don't think I've ever seen a case or power supply fan fail.
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