Depends on the design, and how hard you push it. Just ask Intel what happened to 14th gen. It's not normally an issue, but the edge cases can be very sharp. O

Depends on the design, and how hard you push it. Just ask Intel what happened to 14th gen. It's not normally an issue, but the edge cases can be very sharp. Otherwise, the bigger concern is the hardware becoming obsolete because of new generations being significantly more power efficient. Over a few years, the power+cooling+location bill of a high end CPU running at 90% utilization can cost more than the CPU itself.