Did i damage my CPU?

[Guest shotgun10ga]

Yes, it most likely fine.

so its not a matter of it will slow down or anything? 

[NumLock21]

so its not a matter of it will slow down or anything?

Slowing down is another thing, as long as its booting up and temps are at acceptable range then, cpu is ok.

[Guest shotgun10ga]

Slowing down is another thing, as long as its booting up and temps are at acceptable range then, cpu is ok.

what were your temps when u ran without heat sink

[Dabombinable]

You could've just permanently damaged your CPU by letting it run without a heatsink... They heat up ridiculously fast.

Even Pentium III heat up ridiculously with a heatsink+no fan (had 1 of 2 Pentium III throttle in my old rig). And they put out far less heat than 99% of modern desktop CPU.

[NumLock21]

what were your temps when u ran without heat sink

Never bother to check and that was about 2 years ago.

[Guest shotgun10ga]

Never bother to check and that was about 2 years ago.

how long did u run it

[Guest shotgun10ga]

you might have got away with it to be honest, it sounds ok from what you've said so all you can do is wait and see, on the other hand if it locked up and refused to even turn on or artifacted like crazy or any other crazy shit you would of been screwed

You gave a little more info, thanks aswell!

[Guest shotgun10ga]

Yes, there is a sensor switch built into the processor itself where, it will trigger when the cpu reaches that limit. Did you damage your cpu? Probably not, but still best to install a heatsink before using it, although I did run my cpu a Xeon E3 1225 v3 without a heatsink as well, just to see how much their cpu have improved with handling heat, before thermal shutdown. I was surprise, that it would even let me finish installing Windows and updates. With my old Pentium D, it must have a heatsink cause thermal shutdown kicks in within a few seconds of turn on. A cpu rarely dies, it's either work or don't work. If it boots up then it's fine.

How long was rthe cpu on without the hsf

[NumLock21]

How long was rthe cpu on without the hsf

A few hours

[Guest shotgun10ga]

A few hours

And no damage afterwards? And do you think i caused long term damage on My cpu?

[NumLock21]

And no damage afterwards? And do you think i caused long term damage on My cpu?

Nah