Is it possible to damage a CPU so that it works, but only at high temperatures?
My Phenom 2 1090T is idling at 50°C and I have tried everything to get it down. I can play Deus Ex HR, Arkham City, or Dirt 3 and it hovers around 60.
I have cleaned out all my fans: 2 intake (front and side), 1 exhaust (Arctic Freezer). My machine is a brand new Antec 520 high current gamer. Also:
- Extreme3 770
- 8 GB Kingston DDR3 (2×4 GB)
- 750 GB Seagate Barracuda
- ASUS Xonar DG
- Radeon HD 5670
- New Arctic Freezer Pro Rev 2 (days old and mounted properly with Arctic Silver 5).
I also dropped an Athlon 250 dual core into my rig and that ran at under 30. Is the CPU dying? I know that 50°C idle for an AMD is not normal.
Best Answer
I have recently been having that problem and i found a solution that only works on desktop computers though. There is an application you can download called "speed fan" that lets you increase the speed of your cpu fan. I have an AMD Phenom II X6 1045T processor. I used to be running at 60c and now I am at a steady 35c while playing games. My cpu fan was originally set at 30% with around 1700 rpm and at 100% the fan goes 4400 rpm. I will give you a link to the application below.
http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php
P.s. don't click the big blue button that says download, at the middle of the page there is a sentence that has "SpeedFan 4.47" highlighted in blue, click that and the download should start. I hope this helped!