Can your temperature sensor break?

[skipito]

Hello,

I'm measuring the temperatures of my Q6600 with Coretemp.
I'm leaving this program open all the time when I use my computer. Is it possible that my temperature sensor of the cpu breaks because I am seeing it too much?

Thanks

 

[hunter315]

The temperature sensor is reporting data whether you are looking at it or not, core temp just makes that data readable by you. A temperature sensor can break just like anything else, but nothing you can do will cause it to break faster or slower.

 

[tajisi]

If you're having extreme temperature fluctuations or the values are strange (-10*C on one core, for example), then you might have a broken sensor. Otherwise little exists that you could do to damage the sensor one way or the other.

 

[skipito]

Thank you both!