E6600 OC'ing voltage

I intend on buying a DS3/E6600/DDR2-800 and run ram 1:1 for a 3.6GHz OC (400x9) and I was curious what voltage boost, if any, I'd need to make that happen.

I was just checking out the Conroe OCing Database and saw this:


I'd also be temped to OC the ram a little so I highlighted the 3.6-3.7ishGHz range.

What's the deal with the volts?

That's a pretty big range: 1.36 - 1.625

Are the guys running the higher volts just pumping it up, letting it run and being content with that or are the guys running lower volts getting a nice OC and slowly dropping the volts to find the bare minimum?

Or maybe a mixture of both?

I am pleased to see that the guy with the setup I'm looking into only needed the 1.36 though. however, I'm concerned that the same week CPU is also the one at the other end on that voltage scale.

I'm just curious to know what I'm in for.

each cpu varies and not all will be able to even reach 3.6 and peak at 3.2

higher voltages means more heat so it would be a good rule to find the lowest but stable voltage at whatever you run it at.

early week cpu's weren't as easy to get to 3.6 . new B cpus seem to get high overclocks without pumping a lot to the vcore.

each cpu is diff so maybe you might get 3.6 easily.. maybe it wont even reach it..

All this time spent on learning to OC and I never read the sticky to see what results others are getting. Thanks for brigning that chart to my attention dolphumous!