i'm with Plague, you people think 50C is hot, my Northwood runs at 63C full load and my athlon runs at 59C full load and i've had no issues. It might decrease life expectensy from 100years - 99.5 years. and by then he'll be dead so it's not an issue. If his CPU died, and he was using the stock heatsink and fan properly then AMD will just have to replace it (which it wont die, it's funny the way no one has ever reported a dead CPU even after all this time, have a think about that you sheep. one person says 60C is way to hot and you all start saying, hey if he said it then it must be to hot, if it's not causing problems then why the hell should he be worrie about temps).