Does a cpu dying due to Overheat still happens ?

[Venneth]

i have my i3-2120 for 4 years now and i know that i've been playing a lot on it on 80-85c on full load for 4 years and it haven't died on me but my gpu already gave up on me with a 65-70c full load temp, so im just curious does a cpu dying due to overheat still happens? i've only heard of gpu dying

 

[chemmajorp53]

It's pretty hard to kill a CPU nowadays even if you run it at 90C+ 24/7 for multiple years

 

[rolli59]

65-70C load temp for a GPU is pretty normal and would not cause it to die (most have max op temp 95-105C). 80-85C on the other hand is high for a CPU but before killing it it would be causing issues with thermal throttling and so on.

 

[neblogai]

On graphics card, probably not the GPU died, but pathing broke, or something in power VRMs, or maybe solder under GPU no longer makes contact with it. GPUs themselves were usually quite a bit more more resistant to temperatures than CPUs (check reference cards from nVidia and AMD- manufacturers run their GPUs very hot). AIBs use lower GPU temps for marketing, while there may be plenty of other components on the card secretly from consumer getting scorching hot and failing.

 

[k1114]

It's pretty hard to kill a CPU nowadays even if you run it at 90C+ 24/7 for multiple years

I'd like to know where this came from. If they could run like that, you wouldn't see companies spending so much on cooling server rooms. That's even when they thermal throttle, so you know they shouldn't be running that hot if the safeties are kicking in to protect it.

But as for the op, that gpu most likely did not die from temps. I'd wonder about a quality issue with those temps being good. Those cpu temps are high but not that high. I'd still expect it to outlast it's usefulness.