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Re: Do processors lose performance over time?
04/25/11 06:11 PM
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> Thanks for the feedback on this.
> I am pretty sure I had the same service pack back then, since I conducted the tests
> in Sep and Oct of 2008 and SP3 had already come out. That's what I have now and I
> typically install the SP's as soon as they come out. That being said, I've never seem
> much difference in performance by having less or more programs installed in my
> computer. I once when through all the trouble of stripping down my XP installation as
> much as possible with nLite, and did not see a bit of difference running MAME.
> I agree that the small degradation in performance, if indeed due to the processor
> aging, is negligible, compared to having this processor running at 2.7GHz, for such
> little cost, when I purchased in Sping, 2007.
I wonder, have you cleaned the case out recently? Are all of the fans spinning at the proper speed? Is the environment the machine is in warmer than it used to be? Dust can be a hell of an insulator, and a subtly failing CPU fan could raise the temps just enough to cause the processor to start throttling, which would account for the loss of performance.
I'm not saying it's impossible that an overclocked processor loses performance over time, I really have no idea. It's just that something like thermal throttling seems like a much more likely possibility, to me.
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