Quote Originally Posted by theteamaqua View Post
how high the cpu go is useless ... the highest stable with lowest vcore is what most people care ...
For most people? Perhaps, but what is more important to me is how well does the chip's FSB track relative to voltage input. This 6420 chip will run 3.0GHz orthos stable at 1.250vcore. But it takes a lot of voltage to go beyond that. 3.2GHz orthos stable requires 1.475vcore. 3.4GHz orthos stable requires 1.575vcore. In my opinion tracking on this CPU is not very good.

I had an E6300 chip that ran up to 3.1GHz at 1.250vcore but really didn't move much from there even when dumping 1.6vcore into it. A very efficient chip up to a 1GHz OC but terrible beyond that. My Xeon-3060 did 3GHz at 1.250vcore and tracked very well up to 3.9GHz with 1.6vcore. The person I sold it to now has it under phase at 4.5GHz (I don't know what vcore he is using). That was an excellent chip in my opinion for 2 reasons, very high OC and very good FSB tracking.