Quote Originally Posted by SteveRo View Post
concur - all chips about the same (I have the 965).
Also - lower multi with higher bclock also gives lower temps.
I have seen many people say this but I'd like to know why this should make sense at all?

Higher bclk = higher IMC stress and more bandwidth to feed the cores at the higher core clocks. There's no reason I can think of for a lower multi with higher bclk to lower the required voltage other than some bizarre motherboard implementation thing. I'm still a noob though.