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
My Q9650 is a 1.225V VID if I remember correctly and it will do 4.91GHz at around 1.57V. It seems like it would run prime95 at 4.5Ghz and 1.42V but I never bothered to stability test extensively.(I think I did 15 minutes of prime at 4.7GHz 1.52V before the temperatures were in the high 80s. Its been too long since I tried to push it further.)

Don't be worried about a little bit higher VID.