Gaming on an overclocked CPU for long hours

[Sabin_1]

Been playing The Witcher 3 a lot on my new rig for about 4-6 hours a day and I'm worried that I might kill the life of both my GPU and CPU since my 2500k is OCed at 4ghz. Average temp of my GPU is 68C and CPU is 59C. Is it okay to be gaming this long without hurting my components?

Specs:
2500k @ 4Ghz
Zotac 1060 6GB
Seasonic G Series 650W

 

[Deniedstingray]

Been playing The Witcher 3 a lot on my new rig for about 4-6 hours a day and I'm worried that I might kill the life of both my GPU and CPU since my 2500k is OCed at 4ghz. Average temp of my GPU is 68C and CPU is 59C. Is it okay to be gaming this long without hurting my components?

Specs:
2500k @ 4Ghz
Zotac 1060 6GB
Seasonic G Series 650W

Looks good to me. Overclocking will reduce the lifespan of your cpu for sure. But the lifespan is 10+ years so it really wont effect you.

You will upgrade before your cpu dies, (Assuming you dont have a bad cpu)

Note: I run my i5-4690k at 4.4Ghz. Have been for more than a year

 

[Poozle]

Temps are well within the parameters of working and lasting many years to come. If you are really worried about temps, might I suggest delidding your CPU?

 

[photonboy]

OPTIMAL LIFE of most Intel CPU's is roughly 75degC give or take a few degrees.

LAPTOPS often run over 80degC with no obvious issues.

Overclocking always, ALWAYS reduces the lifespan but when the temperature is that low it's statistically unlikely to fail before the motherboard.

And overclocking degradation is usually a gradual process. Some people push it right within 50MHz of failure, then the CPU fails after a year or two, but they drop the frequency and voltage a bit and carry on. (I don't recommend pushing a CPU that close aside from determining the point of failure)

 

[photonboy]

Temps are well within the parameters of working and lasting many years to come. If you are really worried about temps, might I suggest delidding your CPU?

You likely know, but at his current settings DELIDDING would have zero performance benefit but risk destroying the CPU (plus it's a hassle).

 

[photonboy]

Here's a great video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnluU-pV6cU

I switched from a GTX680 to GTX1080 and while many games run better, I was very surprised at how small the improvements felt outside of a few titles.

Mind you I'm very, very good at optimizing settings such as forcing Adaptive VSYNC and optimizing all the settings to maintain a mostly solid 60FPS experience. I think the video speaks a lot of why I feel this way (until more demanding games come along).

 

[Ecky]

I'd like to add that you (realistically) can't delid a 2500K, because the heatspreader is soldered to the die.

 

[theonerm2]

4GHz is only a mild overclock. I wouldn't worry about such a low overclock affecting lifespan. It'll probably last 10 years or more and by then you will have probably moved to something newer.

 

[synphul]

Should be fine. There are no guarantees of course once past the manufacturer's warranty whether stock or overclocked. I've run my cpu's overclocked for the past decade or better and gamed for hours at a time on them. So long as vcore is within safe limits, temps are within acceptable range (which they are) then it should be fine.

As Ecky pointed out, 2nd gen and older used solder to attach the ihs (lid) to the cpu unlike 3rd gen and newer which use tim compound. Delidding is nearly impossible (or far more work/risk than any gains). No reason to consider delidding either way at 59c during gaming.