Hypothetical cpu voltage question.

MykC

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Let say I have a CPU which runs at a standard voltage of 1.5. Now lets say I want to crank to voltage so I overclock the CPU. In order to get CPU to run at frequency I want I have to take the voltage to 5.0. With the stock cooler this would normally destory the CPU instantly, but I have a good after market cooler that will allow the CPU to run at temperatures equal to the stock cooler at idle and load (at stock speeds).

The question is this, is there a difference is the CPU's life expectancy between the cpu running at stock volts at stock speed with the stock cooler vs the cpu running at significantly higher volts at higher clocked speeds with an after market cooler keeping it at stock temperatures?
 
I have read where people say that a cpu life is like 20 years and OC raising the volts, assuming you don't kill the cpu, reduces the life of the cpu to like 17 years. I the end you will only have a cpu for what 5 years.