Turbo boost decrease the life of your processor?

Gogeto_16

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Hi guys,
Just thinking of turbo boost I have heard that it is very useful for gaming and a amazing thing but will it decrease the life of my processor? And using turbo boost will also consumes more electricity and will it make more heat?
 
Solution
Turbo boost is essentially inbuilt overclocking that takes few things into account:
Temperature of CPU must be below thermal throttling
CPU will overclock 1 to 4 cores (or more in most recent CPU's) over their base clock, this usually is due to computer using 1 to 3 cores completely and rest stay mostly idle, allowing other cores to run faster while still being below designed thermal limit.

turboboosting whole CPU is different matter though and usually wont last long unless you have a good cooler to keep the temperatures in check.

In essence, CPU doesn't really "use" much more power than normal and doesn't produce more heat than normal, it just sees room for improvement due to parts of CPU being idle. This has so far worked due to...
Turbo boost is essentially inbuilt overclocking that takes few things into account:
Temperature of CPU must be below thermal throttling
CPU will overclock 1 to 4 cores (or more in most recent CPU's) over their base clock, this usually is due to computer using 1 to 3 cores completely and rest stay mostly idle, allowing other cores to run faster while still being below designed thermal limit.

turboboosting whole CPU is different matter though and usually wont last long unless you have a good cooler to keep the temperatures in check.

In essence, CPU doesn't really "use" much more power than normal and doesn't produce more heat than normal, it just sees room for improvement due to parts of CPU being idle. This has so far worked due to games being 2 to 4 threads only, with 4 to 8 core processors being half idle, giving boost to cores that are in use.

Of course, overclockable motherboard/CPU and all that changes since you can change the limits.
 
Solution
No, turbo boost under normal conditions does not effect the life expectancy of a CPU. It operates within the power and frequency limits set by the manufacturer and is perfectly safe. As previously mentioned, the turbo boost feature takes a lot of sensors into account and only operates when it's safe to do so.