636_Castle Posted January 4, 2011 Posted January 4, 2011 Alright, this P.O.S. case has messed everything up yet again :angry:. Basically I decided to do some case cleaning over the holiday - BIG mistake. I forgot how terrible this case was for cable management, and ended up rebuilding THREE times in one day to get all the cables worked out. I have watercooling installed, and in this mess, I accidentally pulled my cooler pump connector off of the fan header. In a rush to get everything done at 4 in the morning, I turned on my PC only to have it shut down on me twice. I booted a third time fearing something either wasn't grounded, or was in the process of frying. Sure enough, in the BIOS hardware monitor my CPU was cooking at it's cool TJ max temperature. I immediately shut it down, let it cool, and resisted the urge to put this case on an A-10 firing range long enough to reconnect the pump. Ran a Prime95 test for about 10 minutes and no errors, but it didn't resist heat as well as it normally does (I'm guessing I did some serious thermal paste baking). I completely love this i5, and it's performed terrific - but hit my wallet hard since I bought it the month it came out. Can one really hit the TJ max temp without causing damage? I've heard a) TJ max is the temperature damage begins occuring, and b) TJ max is the red-alert temperature, and will throttle/shut off your PC but will not cause damage. Which one is correct? [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] How To Fix Your X-52's Rudder!
Konovalov Posted January 4, 2011 Posted January 4, 2011 Well I think it should be option b). When a Intel CPU reaches TJMax it throttles down in order to avoid any damage to the CPU from overheating. If you are worried then there is no harm in applying new thermal paste and re-seating your heatsink. Then stress test and monitor temps. Intel i7-8700K | Asus Maximus X Formula | Corsair Vengeance 32GB DDR4 3200MHz | Gainward Phoenix GTX1070 GLH | Samsung 960 EVO NVMe 1 x 250GB OS & 1 x 500GB Games | Corsair RM750x 750W | Corsair Carbide Air 540| Win10 | Dell 27" 1440p 60Hz | Custom water loop: CPU EK-Supremacy EVO, GPU EK-GTX JetStream - Acetal+Nickel & Backplate, Radiator EK-Coolstream PE 360, Pump & Res EK-XRES 140 Revo D5, Fans 3 x EK-Vardar 120mm & 2 x Corsair ML140 140mm
walker450 Posted January 4, 2011 Posted January 4, 2011 I would definitely do the above. (reseat, re-paste) I didn't have good contact when I first built my computer (Q9550) and it overheated about 5 times before I figured out it was a bad seat. I re-pasted and re-seated and everythinghad been fine. That was just over 2 years ago and I have ran it overclocked and have had many successful 12 hour prime runs. Speedpad for Inputs | My Simpit | Joystick Damper Mod
Conure Posted January 7, 2011 Posted January 7, 2011 My Q6600 hit TJ Max for a good while 2 years ago - Still using the same CPU and it's absolutely fine! I dont think you've got anything to worry about in my experience. Intel i7 6700k, Asus GTX1070, 16gb DDR4 @ 3200mhz, CH Fighterstick, CH Pro Throttle, CH Pro Rudder Pedals, Samsung Evo 850 SSD @ 500GB * 2, TrackIR 5 and 27" monitor running at 2560 * 1440, Windows 10.
shadowze Posted January 7, 2011 Posted January 7, 2011 I work with a lot of Pc's , you might be lucky you might not I had a fan fail on a CPU cooler which caused to temps to spike Thing worked fine for about 1 month then died completely You may get lucky , you may not
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