They certainly should, of course, be spec'd for continuous use and have the usual fan, throttling and over-temperature shutdown. They use high-efficiency CPUs like in laptops, too, so everyhing should be fine.

Now my caveat ... I bought one some years back as an urgency to get something (temporary fileserver, IIRC) up an running "right now". It was fine for a couple or so years then popped ... I didn't check to find out why. My office then did get very hot in the summer. Maybe I didn't check fans or something and a capacitor cooked? Whatever, I went back to my usual fanless ITX PC. That's now been good nearly a decade now, running 24/7. Not quite so tiny, but I have more confidence in them. Many ITXs are intended for industrial use.

Last edited by Gordon Scott; 03/08/25 01:35 PM.
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