E8400/8500 degradation myth possibly busted?

[jonny_ftm]

As soon as I have the scratch I'm getting a third wolffdale or xeon, or maybe e7300. I think they rock! Although mine have shown signs of damage, I have found safe zone of 4.25ghz with 1.32vcore, and at that clock no further damage for two weeks now. It's pretty damn good for $200.

I still want to see what the poll says, what the damage points are etc.. I plan on getting more of these and can't wait til I do so I can go back and bench the crap out of the 745.

If we believe what was said on this forum in many topics and on other numerous forums if you read around, +1.40v with high frequency is most of the times deadly, +1.35v with high overclocks would degrade over longer periods for many, no degradation reports I ever seen reported at 1.33v maximum for any speed. Probably, vdroop desactivation is playing a big role here with deadly voltage spikes. People should try to overclock at a maximum of 5% within intel specs: 1.36+5% = 1.43v as a max bios set without any vdroop disabled. For most boards, it'll give you a 1.33-1.35 real vcore after vdroop (my little finger is saying this 1.33-1.35v is not by case as it corresponds to most degradations feedbacks). The problem is that setting +1.35v with vdroop disabled, you'll exceed the 1.43v spikes at about thouthand times/sec

Unless we have more feedback or new steppings, that's what I'll do with my chip. If you have money to throw away, than you can of course bump 1.5v into them. Now, if people like living with some dreams that their CPU is not degraded while it needs a heat up period, they are free. But hey, a CPU needing heat up and think it's OS issue is really blindly denying the truth

Finally, the poll is a nice idea if many contribute with real objectiveness