Bump for a good read and some good infos.
Hey, maybe this will also lead to further degradation investigations. Maybe all those degraded chips did not have their vCore too high... but rather... VTT was too high for them! Didn't we have chips recovering from "degradation" with new PSUs? If VTT can destroy or damage the chip when set too high, then the rest of the "degraded" chips could have been caused by this. Didn't we have people running E8400 at 1.34v and their chips still degraded? Thoughts, please?