[BillA]

backwards, I too think the Storm is better - hence my objection to replacing it in the Apex kit
but from a price/maint perspective, if the performance is nominally equal then for most users it is probably a better choice

1 ok
2 no; I don't think actual die temps are known, just a 'measurement' named such
while much discussed over the years, the measure of overclockability is more than any single temp, thermal capacitance is an obvious contributor which we ignore in our testing as we have no dynamic evaluation capability
- this is quite doable, but if my primitive setup is considered high-end then the idea of thermal transient analysis is laughable
3-8 ok

do you have any silicon temp limits you can talk about ? (I do not)
I think most here are applying case thermal design temps to silicon; the whole die temp thing might be of interest to designers, cannot see its need for OCers
(but I'm not an OCer either)