E8400/8500 degradation myth possibly busted?

[Leeghoofd]

Well let me clarify more :

I firstly responded to your post because you used the magical BS ... seems you are pretty convinced that in your humble opinion some peeps claims are not correct... can be true, you cannot go and verify all the posts, some users just pump voltages and push stuff... things can break ofcourse... I'm happy for you your CPU holds up nicely... you got a good one cherish it....

But what I've seen and noticed is a first timer for me as it happened in the matter of a few weeks... and I've benched and abused CPU's before...never saw a CPU that needed so much more volts even to run at stock speeds...

Secondly Intel is advised about my issue, first I need to try to swap it via my shop , if no go Intel will handle the RMA, but Intel let it shine through in the reply that 1.19volts for 3ghz stock is not that bad...while the vid says 1.125...I also told them about 2 cores not reading out at all they stay put at 37°C... what do you think about that ? real bummer not ?...
So I'll reckon I'll bench it some more till it's really bad and then RMA it if it degrades more ofcourse...
Thirdly I need my Rig at home and the other one at my parents till at least June this year... so my shop can try with the retailer to get something arranged... if they give me a Quad on loan I will give them the QX straight away... and RMA in belgium is months of waiting mate, it's not just go in and swap sadly... and I already waited 3 months for my Qx's to be availble...

Some peeps seem to be able to run them over 1.4 volts easily, some suddenly get lockups, BSOD, reboots, I know at least 3 peeps with 45nm Qx quads that have similar issues to mine but ofcourse it might be something else than just the CPU in their case... I can test on my 2 rigs , swap hardware like that...
Sadly that troublesome CPU does the same thing on my 2 rigs... it just needs more volts than before, even at stock with nothing OC'ed... degradation : hell yeah !!! question remains why this one and not the other ?...