Will my Prescott 3.0 Be damaged if it had Thermal Shut down a few times?

[supzz]

I had a thermal shut down a few times due to cpu getting too hot, would this damage the cpu's performance at all ?

finally added a fan on top of the heatsink to solve my problem,,.

 

[Acanthus]

It isnt very likely it will damage the cpu.

The thermal protection is designed to shut down the cpu before it overheats.

 

[MDE]

It should be fine, the Thermal Shutdown is there to stop it from frying itself. I've never heard of anyone frying a P4 by not having a heatsink on it.

 

[supzz]

thanks guys

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: supzz
I had a thermal shut down a few times due to cpu getting too hot, would this damage the cpu's performance at all ?

finally added a fan on top of the heatsink to solve my problem,,.

You were trying to run a 3ghz Prescott with no cpu fan?

 

[supzz]

well, i upgraded my dell, if you are familair with dell's , they use a shroud, the directs the air from the fan to the heatsink


I upgraded from a 2.4c, i didnt know dell used different fans..

so on dells that came with the 3.0e , they had stronger fans. mine didnt.

 

[supzz]

nm

 

[myocardia]

Well, your temps are pretty much normal for a Prescott, assuming the cpu temp you give is 100% load, like with the Prime95 torture test. And I don't have the slightest idea what a Dell pc usually benchmarks at, but I do know that your hard-drive's speed affects your score in PCMark 2002, and that a Prescott runs considerably slower than a P4C does. Someone around here has one, and says that it compares to a P4C that's 400mhz slower.

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: supzz
well, i upgraded my dell, if you are familair with dell's , they use a shroud, the directs the air from the fan to the heatsink


I upgraded from a 2.4c, i didnt know dell used different fans..

so on dells that came with the 3.0e , they had stronger fans. mine didnt.

Im familiar with that design, your cpu should be fine

 

[orion7144]

I'd be more woried about the MB being fried like mine did.

 

[Soulkeeper]

yeah you should upgrade your cooling hehe
if that don't work then the cpu might be DOA like my first prescott

good luck