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Originally Posted by
Arnoud87 
Not even on 1,6 V...... no one
You might not be able to see it before it is too late. I have done so much overclocking over the time, but never really noticed any slow degrading. Usually things just burn up really fast and can not run stable at all (even on default clocks) or it will last forever (at least the years I usually keep it).
I have read about people that mention their clocks cant go as high as they used to, but I believe they are wrong. Lots of people think their systems degrades slowly because they cant remember the exact values that needed to be taken into account. Lots of things affect high clocks like ambient temperatures, thermal paste and the way it is applied, ventilation (open/closed chassis), bios versions, drivers, power usages by other devices etc. Comparing and diagnosing from memory isnt really doing it. So what you archieve today, might not be what you archieve on the exact same system tomorrow, but that does not mean that you system is degraded.
I havent my self experienced any dead GTX680 but a friend of mine have fried some ATI 6970 cards, a 2600K that couldnt run stable at all anymore and a lot of other stuff. I think the magic of killing is to give to push more voltage.
Edited by qwwwizx - 11/16/12 at 11:30am