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I doubt that the AMD CPU is the one which broke.

If you care about long term reliability, (as said before) you shouldn't let it reach maximum temps. Higher temps and reliability doesn't really add up.
The small difference in temperature shouldn't matter at normal operating temps.

If my memory is correct, the system had all symptoms of a faulty CPU. I would doubt the AMD CPU was not the one which broke.

Honestly, I think this thread is about AMD vs IBM. So, it was worth pointing out the temperature threshold difference here to let other users decide if they go for AMD or IBM, especially for those might not be able to always keep running at relatively lower operating temperature.