Quote Originally Posted by sean222 View Post
How important is it to have a low VID? I noticed my VID is 1.2250. Is this bad? The highest I can hit is 4.25GHz stable. Anything higher and 1 core always fails no matter how much vCore I add
Normally for very high overclocks it's more benificial if you have a low VID as the chip is actually binned as one that requires less voltage needs for it's stock speeds. When overclocking this assists us by having a larger voltage margin for overclocking. Your 1.225v chip is not a bad chip at all, It's just not one of the very low VID chips which means that overclocking to really high frequencies would more than likely require voltages way beyond Intels safe specs.