- Sep 17, 2010
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hello. I just wanna ask whether prolonged high temperatures could really shorten the CPU life. It is a Core i5 760. I use it for gaming. Previously my gameplay has been smooth (battlefield 3) but it was only today i noticed the frame rate dropped by half and was really very laggy. I didn't know why and so I restarted my com and for the first time during boot-up , there was an error message saying "High CPU temperature error. " So I played again but it didn't help. Previously my FPS during gaming had been 50FPS or so but today all of a sudden it went down to 15FPS. It was this that prompted me to download the CPU temp monitor and I found out it was 98C during gaming and 50C at idle!
I thought it was dust built-up so I used compressed pneumatizer to clean everything. But the problem remained. So I searched the net for advice and the worst scenario came to mind - my heatsink was not installed properly. And so I opened up the casing and sure the heat sink was loose. I didn't know for how long I had been running my CPU under high temps. My question is could the high temperatures that i have been stressing my CPU (without even me knowing) with shorten its lifespan? It yes by how much? Luckily it was just average gaming CPU. I could have cried if it was i7 or something. Anyone with advice pls help. Thanks.
I thought it was dust built-up so I used compressed pneumatizer to clean everything. But the problem remained. So I searched the net for advice and the worst scenario came to mind - my heatsink was not installed properly. And so I opened up the casing and sure the heat sink was loose. I didn't know for how long I had been running my CPU under high temps. My question is could the high temperatures that i have been stressing my CPU (without even me knowing) with shorten its lifespan? It yes by how much? Luckily it was just average gaming CPU. I could have cried if it was i7 or something. Anyone with advice pls help. Thanks.