Quote Originally Posted by ugotd8 View Post
What about the engineers that wrote the manual. I don't consider them dolts, as I'm sure no one else does either. They have engineered a marvel of performance/thermal efficiency that will go down as one of the best chips in Intel's history.

Intel has designed this chip to be overclocked. There are thermal limits built in, and none of us are coming close to the 90c throttle stop. They say 1.52 is safe, most are no where near that 24/7.

I for one, am overclocking on temps with this amazing platform.

And if it degrades or burns up, I'll send it back to Intel and tell them my grandmother overclocked it too far. ;-)
I would ague that the engineers who advised those who wrote the manual did not intend the 1.52v limit to be a safe 24/7 limit. It's more likely a threshold above which CPU damage becomes significant - as in, higher than a specific margin / percentage with error taken into account.

I would say that the reps told to follow the manual, in general, are likely not knowledgeable about the implications of long term usage at particular voltages.

Considering that the person asking the rep was asking a specific question - ie, 24/7 usage, safe, etc. - the rep hardly answered his question.

Hence, any dolt can read from a manual and make incorrect inferences.