I was running 1.525v in the BIOS on my E6600 with a EP35-DS3 just to keep it stable at 3.2 GHz. Pretty high vcore for the speed but the temps were very reasonable on my SI-128. I guess my L644G just loves the volts, but my DS3 has pretty nasty vdroop too.
E6850
3.6ghz
1.3250 Vcore in Bios -> 1.296 in CPU-Z
46°C under load, 19° ambient temp.
Thermalright Ultra-120 (not lapped, with the compound that came with the heatsink, not as5 unfortunately), scyth medium fan.
-E8500
-4ghz(500 x 8)
-1.30625 BIOS with Loadline enabled = 1.288 for idle and load in windows
-Zalman Reserator XT/WB-5 CPU Loop only 34c idle/49c load
Ambient ranges from 25c-29c(gets 100+ here during day sometimes)
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