Life of CPU if 24/7 recording with Blue Iris

[J Sigmo]

modern pc's have no such issues in standard office/home space. Aside from the blue iris pc's that run a load 24/7 I have loads of office pc's that run 24/7 for remote access. There has never been an issue with failure. Never had a mobo or cpu failure and one power supply over many years and at least 100 pc. The fans will increase speed when temps rise.
Just plug the pc in and forget about it.

I've got to say: I've been very impressed with the low power consumption of the newer PCs I've gotten. And low power means lower stress on the caps in the switching converters, due to lower ripple currents and lower overall temperatures. And those lower temperatures help with the life of everything. And throttling the fans even makes them last longer. I'm looking forward to longer lives for these newer PCs, for sure!

I've never messed with water cooling for any semiconductors.

 

[soarwitheagles]

I had one and only one closed loop CPU water cooler leak. It was a Corsair H70. Never had a problem again....but I did switch to more reputable brands!

So yes, I fully understand the risks involved, but in my specific situation, I feel water cooling is the only thing that works in such extreme temps.

It is a proven fact that water cooling does better than air coolers when ambient temps are extremely high.

I worked 8 years in a row on the Pakistan/Afghanistan region where two of the years we experienced 121F for 4 weeks in a row. Each time over 5,000 locals died from heat related issues.

Extreme conditions require at times, special modifications...what can I say?

I no longer work in Asia, but here, in California Central Valley, we still have some warm days...

 

[looney2ns]

Only failures I have came across, was very obviously caused by no one understanding you DO have to remove the dirt and crap from inside and off the fans once in a while.
I worked on one that it was obvious that it ran 24/7 for several years without cleaning. I felt I should have had a hazmat suit. It was nasty.

 

[J Sigmo]

Only failures I have came across, was very obviously caused by no one understanding you DO have to remove the dirt and crap from inside and off the fans once in a while.
I worked on one that it was obvious that it ran 24/7 for several years without cleaning. I felt I should have had a hazmat suit. It was nasty.

When I blow out the dust from a PC, I take it outside and hope for a windy day to disperse the cloud of nasty fine dust! But I wear a respirator regardless because inevitably, despite the fact that it's ALWAYS windy here, it never is right when I'm blasting the dust out of the PCs. And man, that fine dust is awful, for sure!

 

[cage771]

modern pc's have no such issues in standard office/home space. Aside from the blue iris pc's that run a load 24/7 I have loads of office pc's that run 24/7 for remote access. There has never been an issue with failure. Never had a mobo or cpu failure and one power supply over many years and at least 100 pc. The fans will increase speed when temps rise.
Just plug the pc in and forget about it.

@fenderman - In my case, I have a several thousand machines spread across the country that run 24/7. Hard drive, power supply, and motherboard are the majority of failures that we see. Randomly we will see bad RAM sticks. Have never seen a CPU fail. These are machines that run Wonderware (an interactive GUI that interfaces with PLCs via touch screens.) We also implement on screen video panes for call ups, spot monitoring, and what ever else (I'll send you a link if you're interested). Most common cause of MB failure is bad caps. On any given day, I have several machines on my bench for repair (on top of what i am supposed to be doing). The issues impact all manufacturers.....including the robust Allen Bradley Versa View panel PCs that are designed to be used in rough conditions. In our facilities, they are in temperature controlled rooms.

To other posters - As far as water cooling, if you are taxing the system that hard, then you are not using the correct hardware for the purpose. Or you just want to say that you have a water cooled system combined with neon or LED case lights. My BI machine has been up and kicking for 6 or 7 years now...maybe longer. It's nothing special but it works fine. It gets shut down now and then for a periodic cleaning but it keeps rocking along. Just a standard off the shelf Dell. My cameras are set to motion, but I have the sensitivity set so high on most of them that they record almost 24/7. I get about 30 days of total recording time.....so if there was an incident that I needed to reference, I have plenty of time to look it up.

 

[fenderman]

@fenderman - In my case, I have a several thousand machines spread across the country that run 24/7. Hard drive, power supply, and motherboard are the majority of failures that we see. Randomly we will see bad RAM sticks. Have never seen a CPU fail. These are machines that run Wonderware (an interactive GUI that interfaces with PLCs via touch screens.) We also implement on screen video panes for call ups, spot monitoring, and what ever else (I'll send you a link if you're interested). Most common cause of MB failure is bad caps. On any given day, I have several machines on my bench for repair (on top of what i am supposed to be doing). The issues impact all manufacturers.....including the robust Allen Bradley Versa View panel PCs that are designed to be used in rough conditions. In our facilities, they are in temperature controlled rooms.

To other posters - As far as water cooling, if you are taxing the system that hard, then you are not using the correct hardware for the purpose. Or you just want to say that you have a water cooled system combined with neon or LED case lights. My BI machine has been up and kicking for 6 or 7 years now...maybe longer. It's nothing special but it works fine. It gets shut down now and then for a periodic cleaning but it keeps rocking along. Just a standard off the shelf Dell. My cameras are set to motion, but I have the sensitivity set so high on most of them that they record almost 24/7. I get about 30 days of total recording time.....so if there was an incident that I needed to reference, I have plenty of time to look it up.

This is exactly my point, these standard off the shelf systems like your dell can be run for many years with no issues no special prep or attention. In the past I have never kept my systems for more than 8 years, as processor technology evolved faster prior to second gen i series. , but I have a number of i5-2500 based systems running 24/7 with zero problems. These processors are 8.5 years old. These cheap machines are disposable. By the time they fail its easier to simply replace them. I have never had a mobo failure over hundreds of systems except perhaps in one laptop that I simply tossed. All pc's are on good surge suppressors or usp. At least 10 of the 20+ BI systems I monitor are not local to me and have never been cleaned. I shudder to think what they look like inside, but they never skip a beat. As others mentioned these newer pc run super cool. Failure of any kind is very rare.

 

[crw030]

Maybe someday stuff like this will be mainstream (Fanless Airtop3): https://fit-iot.com/web/ but currently with the price of the refurb/second-hand market you could get like 8 refurbs for the same price.

 

[crw030]

Stumbled upon this during the week, thought I'd come back to this thread to toss it in here. This is PASSIVE Air Cooling (so no fan), but only good up to about 95w so a newer generation processor would be necessary to balance the horsepower/Thermal efficiency. If you watch the video he has been running it too cool his HTPC for two years, and it looks pretty gross tbh but functional. Check your cases though, its not small.

NoFan CR-95C IcePipe Fanless CPU Cooler

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