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by userbinator
1205 days ago
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That CPU will degrade over time when run at that level of heat. If Intel warrants their CPUs to be at TjMax 24/7, it's a good sign that it shouldn't be a problem. I have not heard of overheating killing CPUs since the days when AMD's didn't have any thermal protection[1], and I've cleaned out machines which were heavily clogged with dust and thermally throttling all the time for many years (the service prompted by their owners complaining about their computers being slow.) In one memorable case the push-in heatsink pins must've been originally not fully inserted, since they came out at some point and the heatsink was not even touching the CPU anymore, yet the CPU kept running for years in that state. [1] There's a famous TomsHardware video about that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y39D4529FM4 |
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It certainly does work. I was working on some manufacturing equipment in 2018. The 2010 release 1st Gen i3 had a centimeter gap between the IHS and the HSF. The Intel HSF thermal compound had not been touched, it was like new. The CPU had run thermal throttled to about 700MHz for eight years, continuously. Properly attached the HSF, the slowness and thermal throttling went away.