WIll CPU Overheat damage it?

[petepham]

I recently bought a P3 800EB using the intel supplied heat sink fan. The CPU FAN failed after a couple of days an stopped working without my knowledge and after heavy CPU usage, the CPU temperature ran up to 64 C where my BIOS shutdown the CPU (I set autoshutdown at this temp). My CPU was running hot (about 40-50 C) for less than 10-15 minutes and reached a max of 64 C for only a few mins. I want to ask and see if there would be any long term damage to my CPU or and performance degredation due to an exposure to this high temp. Any help would be appreciated thanks!!!!

 

[ZeroBurn]

the life of the cpu will be cut down drastically by overclocking in any case, running anything out of it's designed specs will. but if the cpu still works there hasn't been any immediate damage, it either works or doesn't work. if it's still going i wouldn't worry about it, although it's not going to last as long as it would have

 

[bonkers325]

hehe :|

 

[R0b0tN1k]

Any decent CPU or graphics chip will have a means of shutting itself down when the temperature is too high. AMD Athlon's don't have this...which is extremely stupid of them because of how much heat they generate.