Quote Originally Posted by Power5 View Post
This is why I have held off on an 8xxx chip. The degradation of clock speed really worries me. Intel has a great OC rep, which is why some of us buy their cheapies. I think this is much worse than AMD and the errata bug in Phenoms. At least they dont die and people have pushed a whole lot of voltage into them to try and clock them high.
One part for the "durability" story of AMD chips is probably the SOI mix they are using in production.We've seen even a burn-in with some Phenoms,ie KTE's Phenoms exhibited this:after a longer burn-in periods,the chips could actually gain more Mhz with the same Vcore(although it could go either way,as one of his Phenoms did that)

I wonder if the new metal gates in transistors intel uses in Penryn refresh has anything to do with possible more pronounced electromigration effect with >1.45Vcore?