E8400/8500 degradation myth possibly busted?

[v0dka]

Interesting, based on what you're saying at some point the "warm up" to stability
for my cpu will eventually over time become more difficult at the same vcore possibly
indicating real degradation. So to test this I will keep my vcore at the 1.328v and
frequency at 3970mhz for the next week or so to see If this degradation will occur.
I will also run SuperPI, Prime, OCCT, games, and benchmarks as much as possible
to place a lot of stress on my system.

Two things there:

1. Stress your CPU 100% constantly (while not losing any performance you need) by crunching WCG. Click the link in my sig.

2. A week is not a good time for testing things like this.