Quote Originally Posted by afireinside
How do you prove it? A chip dies after you kick the volts up to 1.9-2v. Easy right? Well to each his own, you can run your low volts and I can run my high volts. I'm going to be keeping this 165 @ 1.65v for a while so we'll see what happens
If you're talking about sudden death from voltage, then YES, there have been quite a few cases where people try to boot their cpu's at an outrageous Vcore and the cpu just quit on them....I'm not gonna try to dig up every instance, but I've actually killed a Clawhammer 55 because either A) I set the vcore way >2.0V by accident b) the brand new DFI board that it was installed in pumped so much voltage into the cpu that the heatspreader was still hot after pulling the evap head off. In fact it was so hot that the IHS actually moved from it's original position. (I tend to lean toward choice B)
Your opty @ 1.65, imo, isn't too bad.........