Will the i7 5280k or 6700k die if I run games full setting with a gtx980ti?

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Hi

My cousin said that if I run a GTX980Ti and game for really long times, the CPU won't be able to hold it and get fried. He told me that if I don't strain the pc too much it should be fine, but with loads of gaming, he said the CPU will die and I will have to switch the CPU every 6 months or so.

I was wondering if this was true as I see many people on the net with even more ridiculous rigs.
 
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Even with a lot of gaming, a cpu shouldn't 'die' in 6mo unless it's seriously overclocked with unsafe core voltage or something. Cpu's last for years, whether they're i3's, i5's, i7's or anything else. Many people run other software like distributed computing (seti@home, folding@home etc) 24/7 or while they're not actively using their pc. Your cousin is misinformed I'm afraid.

It also has little to do with the gpu, so it doesn't matter if it's a 980ti, 970, 960, 750ti or sli or any number of amd gpu variations. It's not as if there's some special reason such as a 980ti being 'too powerful' that the cpu burns out from gaming with it. Cpu load is cpu load.

To go to the extreme, pair an i7 (or other cpu) with 2x 980ti's and overclock...
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Even with a lot of gaming, a cpu shouldn't 'die' in 6mo unless it's seriously overclocked with unsafe core voltage or something. Cpu's last for years, whether they're i3's, i5's, i7's or anything else. Many people run other software like distributed computing (seti@home, folding@home etc) 24/7 or while they're not actively using their pc. Your cousin is misinformed I'm afraid.

It also has little to do with the gpu, so it doesn't matter if it's a 980ti, 970, 960, 750ti or sli or any number of amd gpu variations. It's not as if there's some special reason such as a 980ti being 'too powerful' that the cpu burns out from gaming with it. Cpu load is cpu load.

To go to the extreme, pair an i7 (or other cpu) with 2x 980ti's and overclock the cpu with barely adequate cooling (enough to prevent throttling) and just run prime95 or similar on it 24/7. If wearing out of the cpu were to happen, that would be one of the better chances and the gpu's would just be idling. Proving the gpu has nothing to do with it really.
 
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You're friend is full of s***, my friend has a GT 720 and his brother told him "if you play games your GPU cant run you will kill it" it took me weeks to convince him that is wrong and you cant kill you GPU by playing to hard games, the same is with a CPU, it wont die running a hard game ASSUMING you have it cooled
 
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