Messing w/ fan curves, my CPU peaked at 95c in Cinebench, did that damage it?

[TheSilverKing]

I’m kind of a cpu noob, I know more about GPUs and less about thermals than either, so I was messing around with fan curves on a computer I bought at Best Buy back in 2019 and decided to run Cinebench as a test a couple of times, the first one peaked at 95c and the second 93. I got the fan curve fixed to where it’ll peak in the mid 80s now, but would having those previous temps for the time it took to run Cinebench on an i7 9700(non K) be cause for worry on the integrity of the cpu?

[Energycore]

Don't worry about damage.

 

CPUs are smart enough to shut themselves off before temperature is going to damage them. Running at those temperatures is technically safe, though it will age them faster than running below 85C (give or take depending on the silicon).

 

A lot of laptops actually reach 93-95C on the CPU under load since they have tiny cooling solutions

[TheSilverKing]

5 minutes ago, Energycore said:

Don't worry about damage.

 

CPUs are smart enough to shut themselves off before temperature is going to damage them. Running at those temperatures is technically safe, though it will age them faster than running below 85C (give or take depending on the silicon).

 

A lot of laptops actually reach 93-95C on the CPU under load since they have tiny cooling solutions

I see. I got it to a more reasonable peak of 80-85c when gaming (I haven’t ran Cinebench again, but this is on loading screens where the temp spikes, then settles down to 65-75c during actual gameplay where I assumed that was mostly safe and fine, especially since I’ve seen some folks say the 9700 runs hot.)

edit: for clarification this is on a desktop I bought, not a laptop.

[Energycore]

4 minutes ago, TheSilverKing said:

I see. I got it to a more reasonable peak of 80-85c when gaming (I haven’t ran Cinebench again, but this is on loading screens where the temp spikes, then settles down to 65-75c during actual gameplay where I assumed that was mostly safe and fine, especially since I’ve seen some folks say the 9700 runs hot.)

edit: for clarification this is on a desktop I bought, not a laptop.

Cool, you're good to run the fan curve such that it reaches 85c tops.

 

I'd definitely be running fans at 100% when you reach 90 though