E8400/8500 degradation myth possibly busted?

[tranceaddict]

Help us out. Set it back to 4200mhz @ 1.344vcore and keep rerunning orthos after it fails to see if it gradually gets back to the stable state (or a more stable state).

It does not, when it initially failed at 4200 with 1.344, I automatically started another session of Orthos, and then another and yet another. They all varied in the duration of stability, but it seems that the first one was the longest. In other words, when I leave the PC off for the night and the next morning I run 4200 @ 1.344 it will be the longest stability (about 4-6h), after it fails if I restart it, the duration of stability will only decrease.

BTW, these are my system specs:

C2D E8400 - 4200MHz @ 1.35V
ASUS P5K-E WIFI
Big Typhoon
2GB Patriot XP PC2-8500 4-4-5-8 @ 2.2V
XFX 8800 GTS 512 @ 785/1900/2160MHz
WD Raptor 74gb
Fortron AX-500 Bluestorm PSU
21" Hp 1130 CRT/NZXT Lexa case
Razer Diamondback 3G mouse

Update:

Something is really screwed up here, today I failed after 2.5h at even 1.35V where as it was perfectly stable yesterday. Maybe it is those goddamn timings, will run overnight with 5-5-5-15 to check.

[CrazyNutz]

It does not, when it initially failed at 4200 with 1.344, I automatically started another session of Orthos, and then another and yet another. They all varied in the duration of stability, but it seems that the first one was the longest. In other words, when I leave the PC off for the night and the next morning I run 4200 @ 1.344 it will be the longest stability (about 4-6h), after it fails if I restart it, the duration of stability will only decrease.

BTW, these are my system specs:

C2D E8400 - 4200MHz @ 1.35V
ASUS P5K-E WIFI
Big Typhoon
2GB Patriot XP PC2-8500 4-4-5-8 @ 2.2V
XFX 8800 GTS 512 @ 785/1900/2160MHz
WD Raptor 74gb
Fortron AX-500 Bluestorm PSU
21" Hp 1130 CRT/NZXT Lexa case
Razer Diamondback 3G mouse

Update:

Something is really screwed up here, today I failed after 2.5h at even 1.35V where as it was perfectly stable yesterday. Maybe it is those goddamn timings, will run overnight with 5-5-5-15 to check.

Hmm interesting. Just the opposite of what is happening with my CPU.

Those timings are wierd.