Yo. I have an i5 6600k I've been working with for roughly 5 years now. I never overclocked it.
I'm not super familiar with computers. Recently I mistakingly began overheating the thing, going above 90 a few times in the past week. The fans would whirl loud, it'd freeze, stutter, blue screen, and shut itself down.
Today I took the whole thing apart, dusted everything down and repasted it. It still had the same issue.
As soon as I replace the cooler I'm planning on backing up like 1.5 terabytes worth of information from the 2 hdds I got in it on to a new 2tb, assuming the cpu isn't totally blasted.
No idea why I'm thinking this, but my question is would overheating the i5 a number of times reduce it's ability to transfer the files, and would these files potentially end up corrupted in anyway from potential damage to the processor?
I was also wondering if this whole experience could've reduced the lifespan or mess up the 2 hdd I got in there.
Thanks.
I'm not super familiar with computers. Recently I mistakingly began overheating the thing, going above 90 a few times in the past week. The fans would whirl loud, it'd freeze, stutter, blue screen, and shut itself down.
Today I took the whole thing apart, dusted everything down and repasted it. It still had the same issue.
As soon as I replace the cooler I'm planning on backing up like 1.5 terabytes worth of information from the 2 hdds I got in it on to a new 2tb, assuming the cpu isn't totally blasted.
No idea why I'm thinking this, but my question is would overheating the i5 a number of times reduce it's ability to transfer the files, and would these files potentially end up corrupted in anyway from potential damage to the processor?
I was also wondering if this whole experience could've reduced the lifespan or mess up the 2 hdd I got in there.
Thanks.