Q6600 VID help

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Hi guys, Im having a bit of trouble understanding what my VID is, I used coretemp, CPU-Z, everest and some others and the problem is that my VID would say 1.1625 but for a second it would show as 1.3250, so which is it?

Sorry, Im new to this stuff, and I'm just trying to see if my CPU is capable of being overclocked to a good standard.
 
As always vid isn't the be all and end all. Fire up prime95 so the processor drops out of any power saving state and check your vid on coretemp
 
It's a 1.3250v [VID] chip and 1.1625v [VID] when EIST kicks in! . . . looks like a decent chip . . .

Although higher VID chips need a bit more juice to hit the big clocks then tend to run cooler than a lower VID chip! :D . . . counter intuitive I know but welcome to the wonderful world of OverClocking! :cool:
 
Core 2 doesn't have turbo, you've got the same vid as me and my chip can do 3.8 pretty stable, just depends on the chip, only one way to find out!
 
Hairybudda said:
Core 2 doesn't have turbo, you've got the same vid as me and my chip can do 3.8 pretty stable, just depends on the chip, only one way to find out!
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What voltage are you using for that and are you using water cooling?

No way will a high vid like that run at 3.8 on air stable without exotic cooling.
 
Dirty-Blade said:
Hi guys, Im having a bit of trouble understanding what my VID is, I used coretemp, CPU-Z, everest and some others and the problem is that my VID would say 1.1625 but for a second it would show as 1.3250, so which is it?

Sorry, Im new to this stuff, and I'm just trying to see if my CPU is capable of being overclocked to a good standard.
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VID is the core voltage specified by intel to run a cpu at stock speed. It can also be thought of as 'stock voltage'. So in your case it is 1.3250v for [email protected].
Afaik you can easily go up to 3.2GHz with 0.075v increase in bios. So your Q6600 may well be stable at 3.2GHz with 1.40v in bios. However it is the cpu-z/hwmonitor core voltages readings that you are more interested in. They will show core voltages consumed during idle and load. These will always be lower than your bios vcore due to vdrop/vdroop which depend on your motherboard.:)
 
Chuggerboom said:
What voltage are you using for that and are you using water cooling?

No way will a high vid like that run at 3.8 on air stable without exotic cooling.
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1.55v, on a gelid tranquillo (a budget air cooler), peaks at about 72-78c depending on ambient temp, I run it lower because I don't like breaking the 70c threshold.
 
Big.Wayne said:
It's a 1.3250v [VID] chip and 1.1625v [VID] when EIST kicks in! . . . looks like a decent chip . . .

Although higher VID chips need a bit more juice to hit the big clocks then tend to run cooler than a lower VID chip! :D . . . counter intuitive I know but welcome to the wonderful world of OverClocking! :cool:
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Cool :) I remember being disappointed when I first got my Q6600 and found out my VID was 1.3250v as it was one of the highest you could get
 
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