Quote Originally Posted by Dee View Post
I'm not happy, I just paid £188 for a crap chip with a 1.2500 VID! Has anyone else seen a higher VID than that? I doubt it. There are E8400's out there crapping all over my E8600! Quite frustrating man. Hours of tweaking in BIOS does absolutely nothing.
Bah - this is an E0 E8500 with 1.25v vid.

Lapped it so that I now get good contact with my block, before was spoon shaped. Never been a fan of judging a chip by the vid, imo vid doesnt mean . Its the hardware and skill of the overclocker, not the vid.