Ryzen thermal inquiry

[AvogadrosDog]

Simple question,

 

If a CPU (at stock) reaches temperatures high enough for the motherboard to shutdown, will this safety measure prevent damage to the CPU? If you assume it has happened only once.

 

What is the thermal durability of these and other current gen chips? i.e. Zen, Zen+, Zen 2, Coffee Lake (refresh).

 

I know this seems like a silly questions but I'm just curious and I can't seem to find too much information except from the late 2000s where chips apparently could be toasted.

 

 

[Gegger]

The cpu should be fine, though older amd chips didn’t have a temperature induced shutdown 

[Caennanu]

This is considered a thermal shutdown, specifically designed to try and prevent damage to your parts. Is it a guarantee? no it is not.

Is it likely your parts are not defect after this failsafe has triggered? yes

 

You can find thermal limits on intel and AMD's site. example: 95C

[AvogadrosDog]

2 hours ago, Caennanu said:

This is considered a thermal shutdown, specifically designed to try and prevent damage to your parts. Is it a guarantee? no it is not.

Is it likely your parts are not defect after this failsafe has triggered? yes

So, are you saying that if this thermally-induced shutdown occurs it means the parts are actually working? And if the CPU behaves normally post-shut down and shows no thermal throttling or "fall off" in terms of expected performance (within base and boost clocks) then everything is fine?

 

2 hours ago, Caennanu said:

You can find thermal limits on intel and AMD's site. example: 95C

Oh, nice. I had a look a few times before and saw it was omitted, that's why I asked. My bad, thanks for looking it up for me.

[Caennanu]

6 minutes ago, AvogadrosDog said:

So, are you saying that if this thermally-induced shutdown occurs it means the parts are actually working? And if the CPU behaves normally post-shut down and shows no thermal throttling or "fall off" in terms of expected performance (within base and boost clocks) then everything is fine?

Correct.

[AvogadrosDog]

36 minutes ago, Caennanu said:

Correct.

Sweet. Thanks for the clarification.