I have had seven Q6600s in my system in the last week, all with VIDs at or above 1.3v... four of them were 1.3250s.

Quote Originally Posted by Leeghooft
Again a high VID doesn't necesarrily reflect a bad clocker, nor is it in any way an indication of being a good/bad clocker at low/high voltages
High VID absolutely is indicative of the level of voltage required for certain clock speeds. Even the best high VID Q6600s need over 1.4v to do 3.6GHz stable. I have yet to see a 1.3250 VID that can do 3.6GHz under 1.45v... if one even exists. My lowest VID quad, 1.3000v, needed at least 1.55v bios to get 3.6GHz stable.

Quote Originally Posted by WhiteFireDragon
you guys have to remember that most people do not get good chips like seen on majority of the screenshots here on XS.
Very insightful and also very accurate. I suspect that there are A LOT of bad overclocking/high VID chips out there and we never hear about them. Conversely, which person that has one of the few 1.2125 VID Q6600s and can do 4GHz 24/7 is going to think "not bad I guess" and not say anything about it?