High temps, is it ok to use for a week or two?

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Xenone

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I built a new rig on strict budget just so I can use it for few weeks until I flip it on Ebay but I made a mistake and instead of getting a better cooler, I decided to go with a better CPU, I was orginally going to go with i5-2400 and Hyper TX3 but I went with i5-2500k and Needcool D300 which is a cheap used cooler that I found that I could buy with the money I had left and now I understand why the guy said he upgraded after 3 days, because the cooler is garbage, my idle temps are 65Cish but when I start to game, it reaches 82-83C and from time to time, it jumps to 84C for few seconds and down again, I already posted my old RAM sticks and a CPU that I had around on sale to fund a new cooler, but is it ok to use the PC for maybe a week or two with temps at 83C for few hours a day until I get the new cooler? I have disabled Turbo Boost just incase it kicks in and burns everything down, it shouden't with those high temps but just incase it does and I maxd out all of my fans in EUFI, I'll try tomorrow to re-apply thermal compound because the cooler is also poor quality and it's a pain in the backside to put it on and I moved the heatsink few times so I may have gotten couple air bubbles but it still shouden't reach 83C instantly as I open a game.
 
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jossrik
Those temps are high, but the chip should throttle before it does damage to itself, although, the heat will damage it slowly, and if it's a used chip it may be near it's end of life is some one else had it overclocked for years. I'd be cautious, maybe even downclock a bit in the bios so it's clocks aren't that high and undervolt so you can try to keep the heat manageable.
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Those temps are high, but the chip should throttle before it does damage to itself, although, the heat will damage it slowly, and if it's a used chip it may be near it's end of life is some one else had it overclocked for years. I'd be cautious, maybe even downclock a bit in the bios so it's clocks aren't that high and undervolt so you can try to keep the heat manageable.
 
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84c even over a period of years will not cause any measurable negative effects (at stock speeds). Laptop chips normally run that hot, and the CPUs generally long outlast everything else anyway.

If you start messing with voltage and clockspeed, it's a good idea to bring temps down.
 
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