The VID is far more important to me than the CPU-Z vcore reading, so yes that was the first question I asked him. And as for him doing something wrong - Q6600s on ebay sell based on their voltage requirement: new ones sell for £85; used ones with great VIDs sell for up to £150. If you want to get good money for an otherwise crap chip, especially the Q6600 which most people buy for overclocking, make people think it has a great stock voltage and voila: sold. Had that CPU-Z voltage reading been 1.288 as it is at stock, nobody would have bid anywhere near £100 for it, far les £130, which is what it sold for.