Donating processing power using laptop

ok here is the deal, i have been donating my idle processing power to the guys at Bonic and gridrepublic for sometime now using my main desktop computer. now, i just purchased a Asus u81 with a core 2 duo t6500 and i was thinking of using my laptop to donate. will this have a impact in the life of the laptop? i keep thinking laptop cpus are more delicate to processing data and heat output.

any comments?


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Depends on the cooling system on your laptop. Check the CPU temperature at load; <65C is good enough. However, it might be annoying. At idle, my laptop is silent (besides hard drive spinning), but if you encode a video, the fans ramp up, and it's quite a bit louder. On your desktop computer, the fan probably runs constantly, and so you wouldn't notice this effect as much.

Also, turn that program off when you're on battery, but you knew that one, of course.

 

I think this whole idea is stupid nowadays.
In the past the CPU didn't had that much power saving features so it consumed almost the same power in idle and load.

But nowadays the CPU clocks down, shuts down cores, etc. If your system may consume 15W in idle it's possible that it consumes 60W or more in load, and normally you put your laptop to sleep mode if you don't use it (<1W). And now please calculate the additional power bill you or your parents have to pay for 'donating' processing power (wasting energy).


Also you'll drastically shorten the lifetime of your laptop. Not only will the fan get much louder and annoying because of higher fan speeds, the whole laptop will also get hotter, which means shorter life of all the capacitors on the motherboard. The heat will also heat up your laptops battery which will also loose much faster capacity because of this. Additionally the program will access the HDD all the time, which means that the HDD will run 24/7, for which the notebook HDD wasn't designed.
If you only plan to use your laptop for maybe one or two years, then this doesn't matter, except of the higher electric bill.

 

Nope. No more different than you run it normally and leave it on 24/7.

cheers ...