Did I damage my Celeron 566?

[MGMorden]

Hello, I have a celeron 566 that I run with a golden orb cooler. Today when I was messing with my system, I forgot to plug the fan in. The system was on for about 5-10 minutes or so. At the time I had booted from a system disk (dos) and was fdisking and formatting a new hard drive. Never went into windows or anything. Do you guys think that the chip would be ok or would it probably be damaged?

 

[Nevin]

Your processor should be fine.

99.99% of the time, excessive heat will cause the system to lock up before the processor reaches a dangerous temperature. Only when the system is unattended and is left on after it locks up is there a significant potential for thermal damage to the CPU.

Nevin

 

[Vegito]

Being that it should be FC-PGA right ? I heard people been running it NON oc-ed speed without fan is okay but not for extended hours.

 

[utopia]

dont worry about it, its fine

 

[Packet]

I did the exact same thing
and actually was in windows for awhile

playing quake3

ouch eh?

Oddly enough, even with all that... my cpu was only at 49C when I checked it. While thats pretty high in general, for the fan off thats not all that bad.

So you should be fine.

 

[MGMorden]

Thanks. Yeah, after some extensively 3dmark for stabilty testing, the chip seems to be fine. Just wanted to check other opinions though. I once fried a Cyrix chip a few years back and have been afraid of frying a processor ever since (of course I was much stupider back then. I was running a 6x86 PR200 with a cheesy sleeve bearing fan and NO heatsink grease, and that was during constant regular use).

Michael

 

[utopia]

a CPU can take a good beating, check out http://www.tweakmax.com/html/articles.cfm#21

 

[kendogg]

thanks for that link utopia... pretty interesting

 

[JJHendrix]

That's ballsy, with the peltier and all.
For Science Night this year i experimented with heat and overclocking my Celeron 300 (which i normally run at 450). I had this puppy running at up to 95 degrees Celcius. Yup....thing still works perfectly fine, too.

 

[Yoshi]

You will know when it is damaged, it will not work anymore.