Quote Originally Posted by Oj101 View Post
My 965 has spent its life at 58'c running WCG, throughout the year I adjust clockspeeds to sit at as close to 58'c as possible.

zir_blazer, are you sure about your K8 temperatures? I have enough stability to MAAAAYBE get into Windows for a few seconds above 70'c.
It depends on Frequency too, due to silice properties. Take for example extreme overclockers that attempt to cool the Processor as much as they can, this is because silice conducts better at lower temperatures and in our world that is translated to higher Frequencies.
I recall having seeing a graph of some sorts that tested Frequencies archivable at a determinated Voltage and temperature, and the lowest the temperature, the higher Frequency you was able to reach at the same Voltage. This holds true the other way around too, the higher the temperature, the lower the Frequency that it can work at. In my case, the Venice DH-E6 was at 1.8 GHz, so is entirely possible that if you are running at higher Frequencies (A Processor of a higher model) the maximum stable temperature starts to gets lower.