Quote Originally Posted by nugzo View Post
Speaking of degradation... My E8500 after 2 months of 4200mhz @ 1.38 in bios now takes 1.43. All tests have passed at this new voltage. Should i expect this to keep happening? or do they level out after the first voltage increase?
That's actually pretty normal for the Wolfdale. We had a long debate about degradation going on for months, and many of us started to notice the same exact amount of "degradation" - .05v. A lot of the amazing chips start out that way and then after a bit of juice, they need to be bumped .05v to be stable at the same clock.

For example I was able to run blend, large fft, small fft, 10k, occt, all for hours at 1.28v / 500x8.5. Then I did some benching and I could Run 32m and 3dmarks at 4.7ghz with only 1.4v. Now any of those things take exactly .05v add'l vcore.

SInce then it has stabilized, even with tons more benching, and I re-test for further slippage every week or so.