CPU degradation

[FellTheSky]

for the people that run OC 24/7, have you guys notice any CPU degradation? 

I have my 2500k running at 4.5 ghz for about 1.5 years now. I always monitored the voltages very closely and when it was new, it required 1.320 as max voltage. 

Now it spikes up to 1.356. 

Im not really worried since it has done his job marvelously and i would not mind to replace it, but its interesting to notice

[Enderman]

My 3770k has been on 24/7 365 for about 2 years @ 4.6GHz with only 1.15v

The auto-overclock of my Sabertooth P67 does wonders, I tell ya.

No 'degradation' experienced yet...

[wpirobotbuilder]

It's a thing. You might want to consider dropping down your overclock so it doesn't stop working entirely.

[SkilledRebuilds]

I'm always changing between 4.0, 4.4, 4.6 and 4.8 depending on weather, have settings written down, and seperately,..saved as profiles within my bios.

Has been overclocked since I bought it, has NEVER needed more voltage @ same speeds over time, but thats ME, others, I do now know...

 

Could be a thing, but not from my experience.

Maybe I have not had it long enough....

 

*There was a time on the older motherboard I had to use 1.385v for a while to keep a high clock, never required more or became unstable.

[nj4ck]

I was running my 4670k at 1.37V, which was what it needed for 4.4 GHz. Ran stabely for a few weeks and then started crashing, so I had to bump it back to 4.3 GHz and was able to lower the voltage to 1.33V, running stable now. So yeah, you will degrade your CPU if you run it at very high voltages.

[Wats]

hey, think of it this way... it prolly wont explode out of the blue one day. you'll just bsod and have to increase your vcore one day.

 

 

i degraded a couple of cpus.. did it to a 955BE and a 3570k. ran 1.7v through the 955 one evening, booted to windows at 4.5ghz lol. it does stock speeds now. the 3570k used to do 4.7ghz at 1.3v flat, today i have it set at 1.33v.

[Jumper118]

for the people that run OC 24/7, have you guys notice any CPU degradation? 

I have my 2500k running at 4.5 ghz for about 1.5 years now. I always monitored the voltages very closely and when it was new, it required 1.320 as max voltage. 

Now it spikes up to 1.356. 

Im not really worried since it has done his job marvelously and i would not mind to replace it, but its interesting to notice

how can it spike up when it should be locked at 1.32v in manual? i'm running mine at 5ghz on 1.395v 24/7 and its still good. been all the way up to 1.62v and got 0.015v of degradation in about 5 mins. i used to be able to hold 5ghz at 1.38v. 1.35v is still pretty low. ive seen them last 2 years at 1.5v underwater. 

[Art Vandelay]

If your chip is OC'd when new and randomly becomes unstable pretty soon, that's normal, as far as I can tell. People call it breaking in.

 

below 1.35V should not cause significant degradation. The worst I've heard was a 2600k needing an extra 0.032V after running at max load 24/7 for 7 months at 1.408V

[Faa]

Now it spikes up to 1.356. 

Thats not a degradation. It's just your LLC settings. I just prefer to have the vcore dropping at full load rather than having a higher vcore at load because it seems to be more logical to me; crashing at idle but not crashing at full load >.< .

CPU degradation: requires more vcore to be stable after a long time for a certain OC or even stock clocks. How long? Thats different for each cpu. A worst case scenario would be that the cpu doesnt even pass prime anymore with the default settings and a massive 500mVt overvolt at that point you have to swap the cpu out.

I've had a degradation with my 2600K because I kept it like 4-6 months at 1.50V fixed without speedstep & stuff and yeah it started to bsod everytime at idle & load, that's why I'm mainly using the power saving features like speedstep & offset voltage just to avoid such early degradations and it's kinda effective for me because most of the time my system is idling probs like once or twice a month I push to 100% load.