No I was just confusedAre you complaining about having excellent temps? xD
No I was just confused
Although my I5-3470 gets to 65c a lot, which I'm pretty sure is awful
A general rule of thumb I have.Again, a great temperature for a CPU, especially if it is a stock cooler. Means you have good case airflow.
A locked CPU is pretty regulated, 77W TDP, you are probably not 100% taxing the CPU at any point, and the cooler can keep up.
You are right that a good rule of thumb for electronics is 80C. Intel rates their CPUs up to 100C, but you don't want to run that hot all the time. Most GPUs have similar absolute maximums.
Maxwell, Pascal, Turing and Ampere do tend to have the 83C throttle point. They do that for noise reduction. They'll run hotter if you tell them to, but start dropping boost bins.
Define lifespan.?A general rule of thumb I have.
"If this hardware change is gonna shorten its lifespan, don't do it"
That's why I haven't overclocked a thing in my life
PhysicalDefine lifespan.?
There's 2 types, physical and usable. Almost everyone is subject to Usable a long time before Physical ever shows up. I recently sold my Genuine Intel Pentium II 350MHz pc (overclocked to 400MHz since day #1) that's over 20 years old, still on the original Asus P2B D440 BX motherboard. It's using Windows 98SE. Seriously out of date nostalgia piece, but hey it worked.
Turbo or boost on a cpu is a factory OC. I'm sure you don't run your cpu at base clocks, which are factory specs.
And what about cards like the FTW or Gaming X OC series with a factory applied OC?
Or even XMP on ram, that's an OC, factory specs state all DDR4 is 2133MHz.
You OC all the time, even with little things like GPU Boost.
You just don't realize it's being done.