Retail Q9650 Overclocking Thread

[PortCitySlim]

Is "low vid CPUs are not extreme overclockers" and "CPUs with stuck sensors are not good ones" myth true?

Does CoreTemp shows real vid?

#1. High VID chips tend to be harder to overclock up to a certain speed and then everything seems to even out, you either get a chip that needs tons of vcore to push 4.2ghz or a get a chip that hits 4.2ghz with low volts but at a cost of higher heat(Generally). As far as trying to overclock on air I would much rather have a lower VID chip.

#2. Stuck sensors do not have anything to do with overclocking, but it is very annoying not being able to read idle-mid load temps. Of course having a stuck sensor is a bad thing but not in the sense of overclockability.

#3. I would hope the latest version of Coretemp(0.99.4-64bit) would display the correct VID. When I get a chip even if it is a high VID I still try to overclock it before branding it a "lemon" there is always the chance a high VID chip will turn out to be a bad a$$.


Edit: I want to point out that the chip I had to RMA not only had stuck sensors but would not boot at > 450FSB no matter the volts. My motherboard/bios/ram should not be the problem because as we speak my Q6700 is running rock stable at 460FSB.