How? They used the stock cooler and reached max overclock.
I probably won't use the stock cooler.
I said it would hit 80C. It did. You don't want to run 80C constantly.
You're talking about a lifetime decrease from 25 years to 20. By the time the temperature difference kills the chip, it'll be useless anyway.
No one would ever recommend running at 80C. A aftermarket cooler isn't even that much money. Also the heat affects your other parts.
The other parts are going to receive the exact same amount of thermal energy, as it's related to the power output, not the temperature.
Ambient temperature has a large part in how hot your parts get.
But we're not talking about ambient temperature. The chip will release heat into its surroundings at 70W (or whatever it is) whether it's at 80 or 30 degrees as longs as it's producing heat at a rate of 70W.
I don't know why you guys are still talking about this, I said I'm putting in an aftermarket cooler.
Because he's still busy saying wrong things, and if someone else comes along late and reads what he's written they could learn wrong things too.