Uncooled CPU test

[Steebi]

Hello,

I'm in the process of my new build, and I was wondering how long I could run my computer without the CPU being cooled. purely for testing purposes.

I'm halfway thru a custom water-cooling loop and I want to make sure everything is working ok before I start taking GPU etc. to pieces and installing water-cooling blocks, hence voiding warrenty.

Any information would be well appreciated, and thanks in advance.

 

[Someone Somewhere]

That's a very bad idea. You could easily cause permanent damage.

Just use the stock cooler that comes with the CPU.

 

[Steebi]

Yeah, I was thinking as much, just checking though

 

[synphul]

I'd definitely use at least the stock cooler. Like Someone Somewhere said, really bad idea. Even when properly cooled a cpu can easily jump from 25c at idle to 75-80c under load within a second or two. Trying to boot without any cooler on the cpu, your only hope is thermal throttling kicked in and forced a shutdown in time to save it. Otherwise you probably damaged the cpu permanently before even getting to the desktop. I wouldn't put my faith in thermal throttling to save my cpu.