Quote Originally Posted by unclewebb View Post
jas420221: I ran a Q6600 G0 at 1600 MHz and 1.08 volts and I ran an E8400 C0 at the exact same settings on the same motherboard, etc. The difference at the wall was only 4 watts more for the Quad. Based on other testing, my best guess is that a difference in power consumption of 4 watts at idle is going to translate into a difference of only 1C higher for a Quad compared to rge's testing of an E8400.

That's the good thing about using low volts and low MHz. The difference between the majority of CPUs that Intel produces is very minimal. My 65nm E2160 with 1MB of cache at these same settings was 4 watts less than an E8400 so for a processor similar to that, I would use 1C less than rge's recommendations.
Would you believe the variance to be much different with a Q9450??