First I haven't linked anything so not sure how your refuting my supposed links...

Secondly not only are you failing to see the point of others in this thread you are failing to see the purpose of extreme edition processors. They are meant to be tweaked and OC'ed. Why would you spent that amount of money and then not push it? A complete and utter waste of money. And regardless of whether you have OC'ed before or not you are still failing to see these points.

Finally, a chip that degrades that fast when pushed compared to other models will degrade faster then normal at stock settings as well. I haven't seen anyone specifically complaining about not reaching certain OC's but rather seeing that their chip is degrading so fast. Personally I would want to push my chip to see if it was one that was degrading fast as there is no way I would want to keep such a weak chip after having paid that much for it.

And the posters in this thread are talking about degradation that can been seen immediately, not over time. This IS a problem.