Quote Originally Posted by Hoss331 View Post
1.25 seems to be the most common vid on the 9650s. I wouldnt say its a bad vid but its on the higher side so it may need a little extra voltage. Some high vid chips need a good bit of voltage while others like Jupilers do well on lower volts, just have to test them out. Mines a 1.15vid so it runs well on low volts but it does run rather toasty. This is what I mean by low volts.
You are lucky.
Heat i can deal with but my VID is 1.30!!!!
But even mine can do 4.0Ghz with 1.34V which i think makes the Q9650 a great chip.

I find you can bring the voltage down allot on the cpu if you give it some extra VTT voltage.
Nice chip you got there.