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At 4GHz+ i7 can have delta-T of 45-50C which usually kills the OC by overshooting the 95C limit and either crashing or throttling. 28C is promising assuming that delta-T + idle-T < Tmax
There are something like 20 CPU's here at XS that have ran the Chess benchmark at between 4-4.35GHz, none of them were crashing or throttling. That benchmark fully loads all cores 100% and does 8 threads. I have one at 3.8GHz and have ran that bench and am over 30 degrees from the TjMax with a box stock cooler, when the cores are fully loaded for 10 minutes HT enabled 8 threads. It reaches max temp and planes off at around 2 minutes of calcultions. Once it reaches that temp it stays there. Not even near the TM limit.