Quote Originally Posted by KTE View Post
Well well.. we're making good progress.

See the above 2.6G 20hr stable?
I run that setting daily... replicated it just now at 30C, 35C, 40C, 45C, 50C and 55C BIOS (70% load)/EVEREST -> results:

30C idle/load -> stable
35C idle/load -> stable
40C idle/load -> stable
45C idle -> shaky
45C load -> stable
50C idle > no boot!
50C load -> shaky
52C idle -> no boot!
52C load -> mostly errors
55C idle -> no boot!
55C load -> full of errors!

Gack I was certainly surprised.
Yuk, watch this

I assume the 70° limit is for core temp.
Running at stock voltages my system ran stable for an hour at ~80° cpu-temp reading. Everything (mosfet's, nb, mem) was nearly too hot to touch.
With lower temps I always had temp spikes ~+7-10°C. With temps above those spikes in general there where no such spikes anymore.
Temperatures only become an issue once vcore is increased.