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i7 degradation
- Thread starter ratbuddy
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with the high K they use now, i doubt it any.
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Not too clear what that means. K as in potassium?? Does that eliminate the migration problem somehow?
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None of mine seem to have degraded... ofcourse I'm not an engineer or anything like that so take my experience with a grain of salt.
Initially (around launch time) there was much talk about any voltage above 1.65v would mean instant death or degrade the CPU. That does not appear to have happened in large scale... there are plenty of people who have pushed way beyond the recommended limits impossed by the manufacturers... especially in response to the vdimm fears that were rampant at launch. I've seen lots of guys push 1.9v+ to the memory along with crazy voltages to QPI/VTT and CPU. I'd point you to an excellent thread on the subject at XS started by Sayaa... but XS is down for the time being.
Initially (around launch time) there was much talk about any voltage above 1.65v would mean instant death or degrade the CPU. That does not appear to have happened in large scale... there are plenty of people who have pushed way beyond the recommended limits impossed by the manufacturers... especially in response to the vdimm fears that were rampant at launch. I've seen lots of guys push 1.9v+ to the memory along with crazy voltages to QPI/VTT and CPU. I'd point you to an excellent thread on the subject at XS started by Sayaa... but XS is down for the time being.
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Ya know I gotta say I would never had known anything about why EXACTLY (Technically)Cpu degradation occurred , other than Just overheating the Chip.... Pretty intrigueing article. Much thanks ChinStrap for the Links
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Of course there will always be a chance of chips failing, but on average there has been little degradation, I haven't seen any dead i7's in this forum yet.
