Q6600 owners... what is your VID?

[Supershanks]

I'd agree with phil

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).

as i said earlier amd 64 were the 1st chips i sayw that had a number of different vids. These intel chips are just the same.

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

Is why i likened it to trainspotting as there is so little that can be drawn from the analysis.

[graysky]

Just updated the first post of the thread with the data collected... I counted 113 replies so far.

[graysky]

Updated the first post of the thread with the data collected (123 replies now) and added some histograms and basic statics to help visualize the data set.

[graysky]

Updated the first post of the thread with the data collected (182 replies now)... this has turned into a nice little thread

[mroz]

If you're still collecting: G0/1.2875

[graysky]

Okay all, this will be the final update; please don't post new VID data.

I'm not totally sure the integrity of the data collected is that high. What I mean by that is I have read several reports of different reported VIDs for the same chip on different boards. I have also read about the VID changing based on the speedstep state and other factors.

I started this thread hoping to see some sort of correlation between VID magnitude and vcore @ a given o/c level. I have received mixed reports on this front as well. I think the bottom line is there isn't a correlation between VID and overclockibility.

Since you guys took the time to reply to the post, the least I can do is update the data for the last time:

Replies for B3: 102
Replies for G0: 158
Total replies: 260 (a great response!)

I updated the first post of the thread with the new histograms.

Thanks to all who replied.