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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Anusha" data-source="post: 1466213" data-attributes="member: 828">AFAIK, higher clock speed doesn't lower the life span of a CPU because of electron leaking. It does, however, lower the lifespan because higher the clock speed, higher the heat generation, and higher the operating temperature if all the other factors are kept constant. HIGHER THE OPERATING TEMPERATURE, LOWER THE LIFE SPAN. That's the rule.Transistor leak will occur at higher "voltages" and higher "tempreatures", but this is not the biggest problem these days. "Electron migration" is a bigger deal, because it might happen at as low as 1.4V on a 45nm CPU. You should never go over 1.5V with a 65nm CPU, regardless of whether you are using a phase change or peltier cooling setups and are running at lower than 0C. Electron migration is the phenomena of bursting the interconnects when a denser flow of electrons flow through the "wires".</blockquote>

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