1 year now, c2d high vcore and electromigration

[ziddey]

It's been a year now. I figure most people without phase wouldn't dare run higher than 1.55v for long terms. But in the phase world, I can see how more people would have done so. I was wondering if anyone here has ran a c2d consistently higher than 1.55v for the past year, and if you've seen any degradation symptoms that look like they could have came from electromigration.

[[XC] gomeler]

I've been pushing 1.45 through my C2D for the last 9 months and it's performance hasn't dropped one bit. Still hits the clocks in my suicide link in sig with exact same voltages. So I'd say 1.45 is sort of safe, don't have any answer for anything above it though sorry. My D9GMX did die through with less than 2.1 volts :(

[star882]

Reduced temperatures decrease electromigration, so with phase change, electromigration becomes much less of a problem.

[eXceeded]

I'm running 24/7 with around 1.5v and I don't see any difference...

[tiborrr]

Running 1.62V E6600 @ 4300MHz for the last month, loaded temperature about -17 ~ -18˚C on both cores while 100% loaded. No electromigration effects or OC degradation noticed so far. Will report in in about a month.

P.S.: My watercooled Opteron 144 @ 2900MHz 1.71V (ran it for a year at those settings) degraded it's OC potential (couldn't clock it any higher than 2.7 after that), although it cooled it well and the coretemp reported just 41˚C under S&M load.