How much heat will damage a CPU?

[jacob_174]

How much heat does it take to damage a cpu and for how long does it have to stay at that temperature? I was running Prime 95 and my 7600k cpu got to 86c. I stopped the test as soon as it hit 86c, so my question is do you think i damaged my cpu and what does it take to damage one..

My cpu seems to be working fine, but i just want to make sure that i didn't damage it or affect it in any way..

30-40c idle, 55-67c gaming and 85c+ prime95

Using a 212 evo

 

[theonerm2]

No. You didn't even hit the thermal throttling point which is where the CPU down clocks itself to avoid damage. That's 100c. So you have nothing to worry about.

 

[mrobscura]

as mentioned, your cpu is fine. it would take probably take hundreds (maybe thousands?) of hours running at 80+ to degrade the chip.

 

[wasteandglory]

intels should basicly shutdown at there overheat temperture, it differs with cpu fam tho, and blackedits usualy have such features disabled.

even in full load 80 is crazy high for a evo, but im not amazed.. read-on.
the save operating temperture for a 7600k is 71 celcuis
there plenty of people using it overclocked at 80 celcuis
and the cutoff should happen at 100 celcuis,
with a evo you should be around 45-60 celcuis

damage a normal intel cpu at normal voltage is rare as it normaly would shutdown at that temperture, reducing its lifespan with such a move is a diffrent story. in the bigger picture. the thing that kills cpu's is heat, heat is produced usualy by voltage, and then other things go first like your memory 9 of 10 times if you play with voltage.

but a evo 212 is enough metal to not even go towards 80.. even if the fan broke!
theres alot of issues with installing this block of allumium, wont fit right, wont contact right, people forgot to remove that plastic cover off the goo.. generaly pain in the rear to mount right, case of amd it even gets more complicated. took me a day to get mine in proper that it would actualy work.
go check if that cooler is making proper contact, and you prolly want to check how you should assemble it for what socket.. parts go in a specific way per socket. that clamp in piticular is a pain.

also your VID might just be on the highside. this can have number of reasons ranging from defective/overloaded PSU to turbo/powersave settings, but im putting my money on the evo not even making proper contact