Bill wrote:

VanguardLH wrote:

Users just don't understand about surge current on start or thermal wear
from heating and cooling repeatedly. For example, ever hear someone
recommend to reseat the cables, memory, or some other component? They
only "walk out" of their connections due to thermal expansion and
contraction.

I understand well enough what you are saying, but do these issues
warrant going looking for trouble that you are not having? If I
hear something (like a rattling cable, recently--I go in the case
and address it). No ones life and safety are dependent on my
machine. I suspect if it did, there would be a corresponding
recommended protocol.

Same he I don't use medical-grade computers where cables creeping out
of mobo headers cannot be tolerated.

I use my computer at almost any time of the day, not just after work and
before I go to bed. I might go to bed, think of something, and I'm on
the computer again. I don't sleep longer than 4 hours, so I sleep, get
up, do something on the computer, and go back to sleep. When I'm at
work, I often remote to my home PC. When at home, I often VPN into work
(it's a daily thing at home at crunch time). I have scheduled tasks
running on my computer, so obviously the computer cannot be sleeping
during those tasks. I logged my use of my computer awhile back.
Between me using the computer through the entire day and along with
scheduled tasks, my computer was lucky to see an hour of being idle.

Since I leave my computer running 24x7, I've *never* had the thermal
creeping problem with connectors, memory modules, etc. Same for the
hosts in our Alpha Lab at work where those are always on. I know the
Help Desk folks and they've told me the stories about cables and memory
creeping out of their connectors, plus it's evident when you search
online that it happens.