I ran 1.63v for months on water and previously on air for months. Recently I started crashing, but I was on the ragged edge of 24/7 stability and ambient temps have increased greatly. I don't want to say it HASN'T degraded, but I doubt it.

Quote Originally Posted by chew* View Post

Best way to find out is to remove the buffer (IHS) run on cool water at a max prime stable speed.

Let water get room temps then boot. It will instapop the chip think that happened at 1.5v IIRC but not 1.475 with quite a few test candidates.

If you can instapop, then it's fairly safe to assume you can degrade with the buffer in place.
What do you mean by "instapop"?