This was the case with my i7 CO too. It wouldn't care much about VVT at lower OC, but would need 1.34v VVT to stabilize at it's max stable-OC @4GHZ(211x19) 1.34v. It wouldn't stabilize with anything else than 1.34v VVT=Vcore on it's highest OC.!
My W3520 is not so sensitive to VVT yet. It will run stable with any VVT between 1.21v to 1.28v @4GHZ and @4.2GHZ, but I guess that's because it is not at it's max-OC yet. I haven't pushed it toward @4.4-4.5GHZ yet (because of the summer heat) and I'm wondering if it would get more picky on VVT and then would like to have VVT=Vcore, too.
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