Quote Originally Posted by CrazyNutz View Post
Anything over 1.36v and you run the risk of degrading your CPU, the first one
I got did the same thing, I started off under 1.36v and 3.9ghz all was good
then I got the itch to go higher, and went with 1.41 to get to 4.0ghz all seemed well 6 hours prime stable then left it on over night ran prime the next day and Wham-O!! Not prime stable anymore not even 10 minutes .
So I thought ok I'll just go back to the 3.9ghz and keep it under 1.36v again.
Wrong!!! Now the very best I could do was 3780mhz at 1.36v. So there
you have it.

Also I must add there were few times I had the vcore up to 1.44v (<10mins)
but never >1.45v.
Well that's what I was saying in my first post to him warning him not to prime over 1.4v. Like I said I have two chips that seem to have degraded. If you read the whole thread, I've detailed both of mine quite a bit already. But DStealth seems to think it's some sort of phase like a burn in period, and not an indication of damage.

A lot of people are doubting that these could degrade. I'm still not sold either way, but one thing is for sure that the chips don't do what they did at first, high clocks with ultra low voltage. Whether its degradation or a break in is what's of interest to me. I'd like to hope it's the latter as DStealth thinks, because after the initial change mine have been solid. Then again I don't know DStealth or why if and how he's certain about it.