Does Tempreature Effect Performance

[sepd123]

Might be a dumb question but does the tempreature of the cpu effect the performance?

Does a cpu temp of 60°c perform better than one at 80°c  at the same clock?

 

[Mo5]

No, it doesn't. In short, lower temps mean that the component will last longer and/or that you can OC it higher.

[Villain]

No, the temperature has no effect on performance. The only effect it will have is if you go over the rated temp for your CPU, in which case you run the risk of frying it or severely decreasing the life span. Unless you go over like 90c that doesn't become an issue, however.

[bartekxx12]

As far as I know it doesn't.

However if the CPU reaches a certain threshold it might throttle down in order to cool it self back down, also, many processors have turbo functions which will not turn on or won't overclock the CPU as much if the temperature is too high. 

Apart from that assuming you stay below the maximum safe temperature of the chip it will be fine, it might work for 18 years instead of 20 but in 18 years you'll have a new processor anyway.

[Ghost]

As far as I know it doesn't.

However if the CPU reaches a certain threshold it might throttle down in order to cool it self back down, also, many processors have turbo functions which will not turn on or won't overclock the CPU as much if the temperature is too high. 

Apart from that assuming you stay below the maximum safe temperature of the chip it will be fine, it might work for 18 years instead of 20 but in 18 years you'll have a new processor anyway.

That's not the issue is not component death, the issue is components deteriorating, if you push a cpu or gpu to a high overclock for too long it will eventually not be stable and you will need to add more voltage or back down the overclock.

 

Heat accelerates this deterioration.

[sepd123]

Thanks for clarifying guys

[bartekxx12]

That's not the issue is not component death, the issue is components deteriorating, if you push a cpu or gpu to a high overclock for too long it will eventually not be stable and you will need to add more voltage or back down the overclock.

 

Heat accelerates this deterioration.

 

Well you're probably right, but I believe I heard somewhere that higher temperatures can directly decrease the lifetime of a component by affecting the silicon in some way. 

On a side note, wow it really is nice to see the forum working, you click quote and it works :L 

[Denned]

Higher temps will decrease stability, noticeable or not.. :)