thanks WV...

Fry's directed me to Intel saying "beyond 30 days". Intel said momentary peaking over the 71C spec is normal. They also said that my third-party heatsink (thermalright ultra 120 extremem) can void the warranty. He suggested I put the stock heatsink on and run the same stress tests. Will do that tonight. Looking forward to those results lol

i don't have another cpu to use, but i am about to start shopping