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[RunawayPrisoner]

nope, they assume VTT was the culprit. Yet there's no proof for that. There are a number of possibilities in this case, including a really bad CPU voltage (vcore) spike, which might have caused the death of the chip. So the whole consensus of max VTT is based on the death of one chip which was seemingly caused by excessive VTT. Sweet ...

Intel themselves said so to Anandtech... And there are indications all over the place. If vCore doesn't do it, then VTT has gotta be it. Remember, default VTT on these chips is very low. 1.10v (apply to all chips). You pump in 1.3v VTT, and it's already as good as running the chip at 1.4-1.5v of vCore. Hence why up to 1.5v of vCore, it's fine, but excessive VTT might not be fine. Anandtech was running at 1.45v, a whooping .35v increase from 1.1v. Assuming the chip's default VID to be at 1.2v (you know this is not true, it's usually 1.25v - 1.30v), then it's as good as running at 1.55v vCore (assuming they have a good chip). Now tell me how that is not lethal.

gTL references = .63 and .63 then my vPLL = 1.56 , CPU voltage was 1.26 bios actual 1.256~ No droop in other words it stayed around there all the time... I don't know what the vtt is even. I don't think I had that option to change.

VTT is FSB voltage. Its lowest value is 1.20v on most boards. When a 45nm processor is detected, decrease that by .10v. But... just to be on the safe side, never go beyond 1.40v with that voltage even in the BIOS.

holycraponyourmomsshoes runaway, i'm pretty sure i have the same batch.
just got it in from newegg RMA blesstheirsouls and seated it in my POS giga mobo last night and got 3.7 at 1.23v (my board has some killer vdroop)
i'm not gonna try and push it any further until I get it on BlackOps which is coming, again, courtesy of godblessemneweggRMA, for my mistake of a mobo.

Yeap, this has been a good batch so far. And who was it that asked for a 24-hour small FFT prime screenshot?