E8400/8500 degradation myth possibly busted?

[adamsleath]

i thought degradation was supposed to take a long time?... ie electromigration or whatever it is..?

how many have actually killed their chips with overvolts?

Yep, It does seem very apparent. The second e8400 I bought I kept it @
1.32v and It eventually needed more volts, so it's obvious voltage was not
causing this. The good news here is once it completes burn-in it slips
no further.

this sounds familiar to me
i've experienced something like this 'burn-in' (possibly) with the e4300 'L2' 65nm...i ran it for 3 days at 3.4GHz before it started to bsod @ very reasonable volts also..1.4vish
back down to 3.1-3.2 now for the past year or so.