E8400/8500 degradation myth possibly busted?

[tranceaddict]

You prolly need to go with an extra 0.05mv over your initial 1.33, which puts
your new vcore requirements at 1.38. I think it will make it stable at that vcore, and it should not decline any further, based off my findings.

It seems that you are right, I bumped it up a notch to (1.376V IDLE 1.368V LOAD) and I just passed two sessions of around 12 hours each. Hopefully it will not decline any further. Do you think that this voltage is acceptable for 24/7 use? My temps are fine and the load voltage it a tad below 1.37V.

P.S. Did you switch over to BIOS 1012 on your P5K-E or are you still on 1006? I am wondering if I should flash over to the newest BIOS?

P.S.S. Now that think of it, you were also right that these chips did not degrade due to voltage but rather a sort of break in period. I got it stable at 1.33V initially and 2 weeks later it needed 1.35V. I attributed that increase to a brief 45min or so session of benching at 1.43V. However, the chip probably would have lost that stabilty whether I ran that 1.43V short session or not. Since then stabilty decreased to where I need 1.376V and the voltage was never touched above 1.35V. Moreover, on other forums I remember comming across posts were people had their chips at 1.3V or so and never higher, and a little later then needed more volts to get the stabilty they once had.