Quote Originally Posted by Sam_oslo View Post
Yeah, depends on vCore, but usually the power-usage makes a big jump over a cretin limit. Your 1.4v may just be that limit? Those guys are pushing more vCore than you.
Don't have a kill-a-watt, but I'm running a 2600K @ 4.8GHz with 1.42V on load. According to HWMonitor, my highest load is 115W after running prime small ffts and linx + avx.

How accurate do you think HWMonitor is in regards to processor power usage ?