UnOfficial Asus Rampage II Extreme Thread

[jasonelmore]

I don't think your going to get a reliable answer to that question. The only person I would trust with the answer is a Intel Lab tech or something like that. There's no way I'll be having this puppy 5 years from now but some people only upgrade like that. Also I would have gotten a 920 to have some fun with. The Extreme Editions are really expensive and they are meant to be put under phase or LN2. I would have gotten a Cheap 920 or possibly a 940 to play around with for a year or so. I've seen quite a few threads where you've been worried about hurting your XE due to certain settings. I see where your coming from though. I know someone who had a Q6600 at 1.57v 24/7 for 2 years under water. He sold it and it's still overclocked like hell and still going strong. I would be more worried about the QPI/VTT settings than the vcore. All you need to kill one of these chips is a high VTT. Getcha a 920 to have fun with T!

But honestly as long as you have the proper cooling I'd say a safe vcore would be 1.5 and below before degradation starts. Now the Vdimm and VTT is a different story. I'm just basing my answer on past 45nm chips. And as long as they have had proper cooling and weren't running anything ridiculous like 1.65 the chips should be alright. Nice clean 16-phase power coming from that RIIE will take care of the rest.