Safe to Run Systems 24/7

[Xtremeacecow124]

Is it safe to run a personal laptop CPU at 85-100% 24/7?
Is it safe to run a workstation (laptop) at high loads 24/7?
Thanks in advance.

 

[stevepre]

Wow. What are you doing that would cause them to max out for so long?
Run ssd drives so they have swap space to help with this massive load and run cooler overall. Max out the memory.
Is it safe-as long as it is cool enough around the units to keep them fireproof should they smoke-never overclock something working so hard too.
Defrag if it is a spindle drive.
Even in radiology we never had this happen.

 

[Xtremeacecow124]

Wow. What are you doing that would cause them to max out for so long?
Run ssd drives so they have swap space to help with this massive load and run cooler overall. Max out the memory.
Is it safe-as long as it is cool enough around the units to keep them fireproof should they smoke-never overclock something working so hard too.
Defrag if it is a spindle drive.
Even in radiology we never had this happen.

There is this thing called Folding @ Home where you donate your computer's power to Stanford and you get point based on how long it took you to complete the task and how hard the task was to complete. I'm often running other programs with it. Anyways the question was whether it was safe or not.
If you're wondering, the laptop has an SSHD or hybrid drive an i7-4500u and 8 GB of RAM (which are almost completely not used because F@H doesn't use RAM).

 

[stevepre]

Is it safe-as long as it is cool enough around the system to keep the cpus/ram/hard drive/etc cool.

 

[Xtremeacecow124]

Is it safe-as long as it is cool enough around the system to keep the cpus/ram/hard drive/etc cool.

Thanks. I might consider getting something that cools the bottom of the laptop.