Quote Originally Posted by BenchZowner View Post
Yeap, killing a chip via high temps is nearly impossible nowadays.
On the other side, some serious voltage can do the trick ( 2.3Vcore should be good enough to kill a E8xxx in 1 hour or a bit more ).
I was able to kill an e8400 (or atleast make it not post) on a asus rampage formula using 1.65v bios and water cooling. Did 48 hours prime95 at 4.25GHz, but wouldn't restart after.

Tried the cpu again 3 months later, still same issue, says corrupt bios, re-flash when installed.

on topic, it was using low 1.28v fsb term

I vote more then a month