Originally Posted by graysky
Questions:
-What does the coretemp VID mean if anything?
-When comparing two identical stepping chips, does the one with the lower VID equate to anything meaningful?
I may be wrong, so please feel free to disagree with me, but my interpretation of VID is simply the vcore Intel determined that chip to require in order to run stably at stock speed (commonly part of the binning process). It should certainly have a bearing on temps
under stock conditions as higher vcore = more heat output. One would think it may provide some indication as to OCing potential too, but that also depends how accurately/aggressively Intel binned the chips.
Trying to correlate VID to OC potential is probably impossible as everyone is running at different speeds with different vcore using different coolers on different motherboards. Not to mention the variation between chips as we see with yours above. Far too many variables to gain any useful info IMHO.
To me, the range of VIDs of G0 and recent B3 steppings tells me there's not much difference between them. For example, your B3 stepping has a VID well within the range currently being seen on G0 steppings.