Quote Originally Posted by tranceaddict View Post
I do not agree with the idea that Prime can wear out a processor in a matter of days. If on average Prime is twice as stressful as the most stressing game, you telling me that 100 hours or so of gaming would degrade your CPU to wher it is noticable. On my Opteron 146 I ran about 50 hours of Prime and few 1000 hours worth of games and it was just as stable as when I got it.
You have to remember that even the most stressful game (like crysis for GPU or FSX for CPU) isnt going to raise the temps on the proc as much as prime. 60 is a lot for any electrical components. I work on aircraft electrical systems and the #1 leading cause of a component failing is excessive temperatures. Also temps that are too low... but prime takes a cpu to the ultimate hottest place it's ever been. So I can understand or believe that when you prime with not stock voltages you will get degradation in a short period of time... It might not be that much but it's there for sure. It's not like an organic material where you stress it and it grows back stronger... this is metal and silicon we are talking about.