Excellent info. Thanks.
Yeah VID and starting voltage will decide what temps/oc/power you get in the end. Early ES guys had 1.1V stock volts and 1.0xx stock VID and were getting high clocks@low volts.
That 70C looks incorrect or its reading TJunction because by 64.5C Tcase (IHS) your core is automatically throttling and modulating 30-50% as a safe guard for damage. QX9650 is designed to only operate safely at a maximum of 64.5C before TCC kicks in and drops the clocks and the voltages down because its exceeded maximum safe temperature and PROCHOT gets asserted. Thats the limit before you get a damaged processor.

(see Intel QX9650 specs). Not sure what is happening with Core Temp there.
Also have you measured the VCC using a DMM when you set it in BIOS and after bootup?
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