On Fri, 8 May 2009 15:08:31 +0100, Mike Tomlinson
wrote:

In article , Spehro Pefhany
writes

Also, 50,000 hours 24/7 is only 5.7 years, which is more-or-less what
you'd expect out of a motherboard.

Not from electrolytic caps, which was kind of the point. Even Panasonic
specify only 10k hours for their top of the range electros.

I guess that would be a rather serious problem if the temperature
inside your computer case averaged 105°C = 221°F.

http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/friedegg.html