Quote Originally Posted by chew* View Post
From what I have gathered just skimming through temps, chips, vid, it appears the lower the vid the hotter they run but the less voltage needed to attain a high OC.

For instance vid on mine is 1.225 and does 3.2 with stock vid. With LLC enabled and real voltage set at 1.225 cpu-z reports 1.208, I only need 1.325v (cpu-z reports 1.308) for 3.6, and so on but my temps are peaking 80C with a scythe ninja knockoff.........I will have TRUE black 120 results tommorow or saturday. I don't think there is a max voltage per say because of Vid discrepencies, I would say that .2 over vid is safe for air 24/7 though.
Believe it or not, thermal dissipation is relative to work being done.

If one CPU running at 1.2V and the other say 1.3V but both producing identical amounts of throughput (work) then theoretically they should both be producing similar TDP (Watts consumed) and have roughly same temperature. The 1.2V CPU will be drawing more current while the 1.3V will be drawing voltage.

The lower VID chip might be slightly better quality is all. But Mhz for MHz TDP shouldn't change too dramatically.

Q6600s draw a lot of current at even 3.4GHz and produce a lot of heat, if you don't want as much heat go to a 45Nm chip, they have lower TDPs.