Degradation findings.!!!

i have been pushing about 1.5v in my quest of 4.5 through my e8400 and i noticed after priming for a while 8hrs++ and then stop and try other settings prime would almost instantly fail unless you increased volts alot more. so i tried shut down, reboot, and even changing settings by a bump only and would still fail. i had the same settings stored on my oc profile in my maximus bios and i simply loaded the settings again and did a reboot. and just like that its stable at the very same settings as before. am still testing for the sake of information to anyone who cares but my oppinion would be that these boards just arent ready for these chips yet. they take a beating specially the northbridge and start acting funny. if someone runs into possible degradation try the chip on another board under similar condition if you have identical boards( if you are a tester lol) and see if my findings are not isolated to me alone. hope this helps someone. but if you notice degradation try load bios defaults and enter settings again. sorry for the novel but had to share.. all hail overclocking!!!!!!