I'm back to testing my Q9650 while I'm moving to an Ivy Rig and it appears that the vcore selected in bios does not match the actual voltage supplied to the chip.

I'm monitoring power consumption through everest and now my computer shuts down at 235 Watts instead of its usual 210-215 W max in the past. Only reason I can think of is the mobo is no longer delivering as much voltage as shown in cpuz / selected in bios.