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Yes. Higher temperature leads to faster degradation of capacitors. My experience with running PC routers 24/7 in non-air-conditioned spaces (with ~40 degC in summer) is that after 5+ years systems that were rock-stable started to crash/reboot once per several days and must be replaced.


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