Chad420: It's in the motherboard section, you should see temps, RPMs of fans and voltage levels and the name/make of the sensors.
I think Spade hit it on the head with
It is the gradual failure of parts that you dont even notice till one day they are shot that is the real risk.
This is EXACTLY how the real world actually works. I will tell you briefly about my previous job with Nortel.(they are a world class telecom company that made THE 1st 10Gbit GaAs laser diode and detector) These are used worldwide in internet fiberoptic telcom. Ok get to the point Kirock.
I was the Reliability Test Lab Supervisor, it's manditory in Telcom (legal, license, blah, blah, blah stuff) to provide lifetime and failure rate data, These are 100 page reports which prove by real experimental data the life expectancy of the product.
How do we do this you might ask? HEAT, HEAT and a little more heat and current! We would apply 3 to 4 times the normal operating current while they were mounted inside a chamber at 100C degrees. This LITERLLY accelerates the failure rate of the device (the laser diode in this case). So something that would normally last 15-20 YEARS in the field in normal use would run it's life expectancy out in just a few 100 DAYS!!!!!!
We would measure performace parameters, like power in vs. light power out etc. to measure and then predict the MTF (mean time to failure). You could plot this data and see it slope away to zero. This is done stastically with populations of a few dozens to over 100 samples. The more devices (samples) you use the Greater your Confidence is in the MTF prediction. Again this is DICTATED by LAW and our legal requirements as manufactures of telecom devices( I mean the sample size and the level of confidence and varies per product). ALL such companies (Alcatel, Siemens, etc) must provide and prove this data.
What the hell is your point KirocK? Glad you asked. Heat is the whole point. The worlds best manufactures in Telecom devices use heat to kill devices in a short period of time so they can provide proof of the reliability of their products.
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