More RAM = longer processor life ????????

does anyone out there know if adding more RAM helps reduce stress on the processor, thereby extending its lifespan? significantly?

Miguel Peralta:
i what about the difference between putting a computer to sleep and shutting it down. i have the idea that "sleep" does not mean that the computer stops working, and that it in fact remains ON. would shutting down be a better option istead of sleep, to conserve CPU life??
When you place it in sleep mode, the entire state of the machine is still in the DRAM, and the memory is still on and being refreshed. Basically a "1" is stored in a DRAM bit on a single capacitor where the voltage decays rapidly. The mechanism basically reads and rewrites each location periodically to ensure that the state of the memory is maintained above a required threshold to recogize a "1". It takes a certain amount of power to do this.
I believe the CPU power consumption is severely reduced in sleep mode.

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