"Really depends what tasks you're running which will push a CPU to 100% usage. If gaming have you used something like MSI Afterburner to monitor how the hardware behaves? Have you used the stress test in AMD Overdrive? The latter would at least let you know if the CPU will go to 100% usage."
Well, I can't find a stress test tab in AMD Overdrive, but I did run the benchmark and monitored the usage using task manager. The CPU reached 90% for a second then dropped to 24-26% for the rest of the test. System Performance score was 12294
I also ran the stability test for two minutes with CPU, FPU, and Calculation test 0 checked and the CPU never passed 35% there. (I also can't change the frequency through AOD anymore since it results in an OS lockup, no matter if I raise it or lower it).