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I see... maybe a degraded motherboard filter section? Because silicon is 0 or 1, vs filter section capacitors can degrade over time or if pushed too hard (voltage), or beyond their working temperature..
It is not the transistors - your ones and zeros - but the conductive traces on the chip that get eroded away over time by the current flowing through them. This erosion is accelerated by higher voltages and temperatures. The process is called electormigration. This erosion, over time, results in connections with high resistance, broken connections or shorts. The first effects are usually loss of stability requiring higher volts or requiring you to lower the frequency. Increasing the voltage accelerates the process even further and eventually the processor will fail.
If you operate the processor within its design parameters, it should last at least its rated lifetime. Operating outside accelerates the degredation, but if you keep your processor cool and don't apply too high a voltage, it will still last long enough. Electromigration depends more strongly on temperature, than voltage,
The 105C is the temperature above which the processor can be permanently damaged, immediately.