Is it Safe to Leave My New Gaming PC On 24/7?

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I will reboot it once a week and put fans next to it so it wont over heat like an actual fan i only used one and the heatsink got way cooler when it was hot, and the hard drive did also. I did this so it wont have a risk of over heating to the max and wearing out my part or something. I also don't pay and electricity bill it's included in my apartment rent.

My PC (Just In Case):
CPU: Athlon x4 760k & Included with item heat sink & fan.
GFX: XFX R7 260x
MOBO: A78M-E35
PSU: Corsair CX430
HDD: Western Digital 500GB
 
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I've been running a multi-use server (that handles domain membership, e-mail, website, dhcp, dns, and a few other services) that's on 24/7 using regular off the shelf hardware... it's a Pentium 4 1.6ghz with 384mb sdram on a asus P4B motherboard that's being going strong for 12 years now running 24/7 with very minor issues here and there. The load on the processor spikes to 100% only occasionally but usually hovers around 1 to 5 percent. With this server, I've worn out 3 or 4 power supplies and many HDDs (which by the way are in a raid array for redundancy) but the processor, memory, video card, and mainboard haven't ever given me problems (knock on wood!)

So... if you ask me... if you maintain your system (clean the dust out of the...
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Well your components aren't really designed for 24/7 continuous operation but unless its on 100% load at those times, it shouldn't be problem. If anything does happen, it will probably turn itself off as a safety measure.

Why do you need to keep it on though?
 
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Keep it on to download games over night really then I end up playing them in the morning all day until midnight so yeah and my cpu load stays under 5% all i got is steam running and thats it.

 
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Them components are not necessarily designed for 24/7 operation but I agree with tambe if it's not under 100% load or close to that it should be fine, aslong as you have decent cooling
 
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I've been running a multi-use server (that handles domain membership, e-mail, website, dhcp, dns, and a few other services) that's on 24/7 using regular off the shelf hardware... it's a Pentium 4 1.6ghz with 384mb sdram on a asus P4B motherboard that's being going strong for 12 years now running 24/7 with very minor issues here and there. The load on the processor spikes to 100% only occasionally but usually hovers around 1 to 5 percent. With this server, I've worn out 3 or 4 power supplies and many HDDs (which by the way are in a raid array for redundancy) but the processor, memory, video card, and mainboard haven't ever given me problems (knock on wood!)

So... if you ask me... if you maintain your system (clean the dust out of the heatsinks and such) then yeah shouldn't be a problem at all! ;)
 
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