Running a laptop for hours every night

[Mooshie123]

So I have a ge72vr MSI laptop. I want to run a website that pays you for watching videos at night (ad revenue). If I was running around 20 videos overnight every night on my laptop, would that end up frying my processor? Also, would a cooling pad solve this problem? Lastly, if I did this with an old laptop with like a 3rd generation i7, 8gb ram, would that computer be ok running that many videos but at 24 hours a day?

 

[velocityg4]

If the laptop was designed by the manufacturer properly. It should be able to run at full load 24/7. Placed on a hard flat surface without any additional cooling. Although that little cooling fan will probably bite the dust prematurely. That being said. Not all manufacturers are very good about providing adequate cooling. So a cooling pad should help.

If this is all the laptop will be used for. Why not sell it and buy a used Xeon server off eBay. They are dirt cheap and designed for 24/7 load. You could probably get more simultaneous videos loaded.

Just be sure to calculate revenue of videos watched vs cost of power used. You could also load it with Radeon Rx 470 GPUs and give Cryptocurrency mining a shot. Perhaps use a multi-CPU server to load a lot of videos.

 

[JeffDaemon]

I would do it, but just on a laptop that I don't care about anymore. for the past decade I use one of my older laptops as a downloader for things like big or slow torrents, something I can run 24 hours a day while producing little noise, heat, and power draw.