First I said in my opinion.....so to say my statement is BS is not valid.
If the cpu has "degraded" in any way why not RMA it?
If it was any other piece of hardware it would have been sent back long ago?
I dont doubt that there are perhaps "flawed" chips out there, but seroiusly how can a chip degrade? Please explain...Your own words are "some chips are good some are bad or get bad ...sadly to say... "
So lets say you had ram that worked great today, sketchy tomorrow and the third day, would you keep it and chock it up to degrading? Hell NO that ram would be RMA'd so why not the chip? ppl see what they want and for evey person that will agree with me there will be 100's that wont, Am I right and there wrong... NO, it means we have a difference of opinion and thats what makes this world go round.. diversity.
But if you spent all that cash on 2 QX chips and 1 is leaps and bounds better than the other send it back instead of slapping a "degrading" sticker on it