Quote Originally Posted by Hans Gruber View Post
I don't care what people say, you need 1.40-1.42v to run the Q6600 completely stable. Prime 95 is overkill, but for a short time 30 minutes or less will give you some insight into stability.
You do realise that the fact you have a not so good, high VID chip doesn't mean that everyone have such units? It's not a case of what people say, it's a FACT that a lot of people run 3.6GHz completely rock-stable on voltages around 1.3v. And by that I mean 8-24 hours of continuous priming, not 30 minutes which doesn't give you any insight on stability, since the pc migh aswell reboot after 3 hours of testing...

As for the temps, I wouldn't go past 65C on maximum load for 24/7 use.
The CPU's life length is determined by temps, vcore voltage and ppl voltage. Just don't go above official intel specifics and it's all fine.