Quote Originally Posted by strange|ife View Post
i think its a real crapshoot, a few people in this thread also have 1.3 vid. and still able to obtain at least 3.6 stable it looks like. yet the guy benching at 3.8, has a very low VID

so yeah monday morning going to call ncixus, and see if they cant do some type of cross shipping. With my luck ill get a B3 LOL
It's not fair or "nice" to return a CPU just because the VID is not as low as you expected it.

My Q6600 G0 also has a 1.3 VID. I can boot @ 3.8ghz but I'm having a hard time keeping it stable.

Also, keep in mind that the best boards to overclock Quads are the ones based on the P35 chipset, followed by the 680i boards!