Wolfdale, 1.48V and not going "pop" - possible?

[dkm777]

I come with a question of curiosity. Some guy claims (actually I think he's trolling) that he's been running two E8500s at around 4.5GHz with a Vcore=1.48V for two years without problems. Is this actually possible? Wouldn't a Vcore that high kill a 45nm chip rather quickly?

 

[killster1]

If you cool it good enough its fine. i have e8500 @4.8ghz for 2 + years as well why do you care?

 

[smakme7757]

I used 1.70v to get my E8400 to 4.7Ghz. I would say it could handle it under water!

 

[aigomorla]

killed an E8500 with 1.55Vcore underload for a full 2 weeks!

 

[john3850]

With water at 1.46v the bottom of my chips got slightly discolered around the hot spots.
If your going to do stuff like distributed computing I would say its bad idea.
It all depends on your load.

 

[dkm777]

Hmm, since I do distributed computing myself I kinda assumed that guy also runs his PC for many hours a day when me might actually just turn it on for a couple of hours to play some games.
Now I got another question - how conservative are Intel's specs as far as voltages are concerned? They say 1.36V max for Wolfdale/Yorkfield and I tend to stick with them. But still, I'm just itching to push my E8400 over 4GHz just to see how it goes and it won't do 4GHz with 1.36V, but 1.38V is fine (for short term; was afraid to do a full 12hr prime test).