E8400/8500 degradation myth possibly busted?

[mrcape]

I'm also interested to see how stability scales up testing with linpack on these 45nm suckers from the get go. I'm done testing the two I have, but I think I'll give linpack a go as a testing tool for my next chip, which will be in a couple months.

[oublie]

well guys this is interesting so i'm trying a little reverse old school overclocking theory. Many of you may already be aware that it is possible to "train" your chip to run higher speed at lower voltage by starting low.

I've lowered my volts as low as they will go on a p5k prem 1.1v 1.072 loaded and am gradually increasing fsb. then orthos for an hour then fsb up again. Last night my box wouldn't boot to windows at that speed so i had to use set fab to run higher.but i'm now running at 345 fsb and raising it by 5 fsb every 1 hour othos stable. I'm hoping this will allow me to get a better clock on phase change when i switch over by using less volts for the same clock. This is on the stock intel cooler and full load on both cores temps are 43 degrees c.

Don't know if this will help or if it will delay chip degradation once finaly sub zero overclock is set but its worth trying.