let me ask you this question . should you build a OC'ed E8400 system for someone .. should it fail do you replace it free of cost?
SURE WOULD...the only cost is the shipping. Don't believe me, ask DustyR he is a member of this forum. His machine was completely destroyed by UPS, I rebuilt the rig at no additional cost to him at all, not even shipping everything was outta my pocket NOT UPS's. I stand firmly behind my builds, no questions asked. If there is a problem, I do my best to fix what ever it may be again at no additional cost to the customer.
As for the post you quoted... if you KNOW what your doing, keep the thermals and the voltages within allowable specs then Yes its all covered under warranty. Question to you is this... you have stated that you have been building systems for a number of years, then why is you do not know any of these answers. Lets see on the Boxes and in the advertising of most all Motherboards and MEM will say 1333 and also say on the BOX OC 1600 or OC 1800 or OC 2000 or OC 1333 etc etc. why do you think the memory manufactures make this memory? I may get dinged here for this, but, in my opinion you do not have the skill or the knowledge to make any recommendations to anyone seeing advice about a build and or an upgrade. You ask for advice on builds for yourself which is fine, no one knows everything, but then you come and make criticisms of others without what seems like any piratical knowledge to me, you find posts that are over a year old and quote them, there is no substitute for pratical knowledge, reading is one thing doing is another. Why you do this is beyond me.
Here is the final thoughts from the original poster of the link you posted and I quote
"UPDATE/CONCLUSION
Well guys, I can confirm now that my
CPU's did not actually degrade.
It is apparent now that the 45nm CPU's have a burn-in period of about
1 - 2 weeks, after this time the CPU's will need a small bump in vcore
(.024mv - .050mv) to regain initial prime stability.
My CPU's are rock solid stable now, and are not showing any other signs
of further degradation,
I even had the vcore on one up close to 1.5v for
some suicide runs, and still did not hurt it.__________________
e8400 (B#748A144 PD: 02/05/08) 3960mhz @ 1.35vcore Lapped (yes it was worth it)"
Notice his Core speed 3.96 Let me educate you on Overclocking a little. Not all overclocks are 24/7, some are for see what it can do, some are for benchmarking scores only, some are just to see if the rig will post and will never get into windows. Welcome to the world I enjoy so much of Overclocking.
