Quote Originally Posted by jcool View Post
You are right, the lower temperature doesn't do too much for the voltage needs of a CPU at a certain overclock. For example, mine can run 4Ghz at 1,45V on straight water as well.
But there is a temp threshold at which the CPU becomes unstable, that threshold gets lower the higher your OC is (and it's different and unique for each). For example, I need to stay below 60C coretemp if I want to prime 4Ghz or more. Which I can't hold 24/7 on water, and I don't get how you people manage to cool a quad at >1,6V and keep it under 60C. I always had a hard time doing that with even 1,45V, and I did have some badass wc setup.

Exactly, same thing with my q6600 (1.2 vid). I must keep it under ~60C loaded with real temp or otherwise it will crash. Ex) i can run OCCT and prime95 all night long but when i try the IntelBurnTest, it will crash my system after 2 minutes because temp were at 65s loaded.