Timeline for Is there such a thing as unsafe cpu levels on mac?
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| Apr 7, 2020 at 17:33 | vote | accept | gen | ||
| Apr 7, 2020 at 17:33 | comment | added | gen | I see, thanks for the clarifications! | |
| Apr 7, 2020 at 15:45 | comment | added | Allan | Also see apple.stackexchange.com/questions/295250/… | |
| Apr 7, 2020 at 15:45 | comment | added | Allan | That’s been engineered in. Obviously, if you run your CPU at 100% all the time, it will shorten its life, but we’re measuring CPU life around the decade mark. Even at full capacity, it will be obsolete before it’s toast | |
| Apr 7, 2020 at 15:03 | comment | added | gen | Thanks for your answer. I'm not an expert here, but I am assuming you are implicitly addressing the risk of killing the CPU during one of these sessions. Would higher avg load over a long timespan not reduce the life of the CPU? | |
| Apr 7, 2020 at 14:32 | history | answered | Allan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |