Should I use my CPU with or without the broken water cooler on it?

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kylewilliams5115

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So my CPU water cooler broke. It's going to be a couple days before the new one comes in. I'm going to continue to game while cautiously watching my temps. Should I keep the broken cooler on or off? In my mind the CPU would stay cooler with it just exposed and the side panel off but I'm worried that there is something obviously wrong with having just a bare CPU.

It's a i7-6700k 4.00GHz btw.
 
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volkgren
Do NOT run your CPU with no cooler. The broken liquid cooler would be better than no cooler. But even then I doubt you can game at full speed and not have it throttle. If you insist on using the CPU with a broken cooler at least downclock to around 3.0GHz and disable turbo boost and maybe even hyper-threading to cut down on heat.

What cooler do you have btw? How long have you had it? What broke?
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Do NOT run your CPU with no cooler. The broken liquid cooler would be better than no cooler. But even then I doubt you can game at full speed and not have it throttle. If you insist on using the CPU with a broken cooler at least downclock to around 3.0GHz and disable turbo boost and maybe even hyper-threading to cut down on heat.

What cooler do you have btw? How long have you had it? What broke?
 
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Do not run your PC with a broken cooler.
Running with out a cooler is even dumber.

Don't use your PC until you have a working CPU cooler. Remember to get some thermal compound if you have to re-attach the cooler. Don't use too much CPU paste (most common novice PC building mistake).
 
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Yes this is obviously the best answer.
 
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Broken Water Cooler = potential heat damage CPU, or worse potential water leaking on CPU and death of CPU.
No cooler = guaranteed death of CPU

Only thing worse than #1 is #2.
Put system on stock speeds and get someone's old stock intel cooler of a $15 coolermaster for the time being.
 
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