Asus A8N32-SLI initial impression....WOW!

[freakBYnature]

I've discovered why!!! Yeah I truly did! If you set 1.35 from BIOS it will pump out an approx. 0.05~0.1V EXTRA! So the bios settings regarding vcore is wrong! If you want 1.35V you have to set 1.3 or EVEN LOWER! That's why the higher temps, cause it overvolts it on every single setting!

Enable overvolt: ON (which give 0.205V extra)
VCORE: 1.125

Reboot............ ........... ..........

Windows reads: 1.39V!! Which aint logic, cause it should say like 1.33V!!!

I've figured it out... and by doing this, the temps are NORMAL! Like they should be... idle 30c and load like 44~46C!! And I even oc'd my Opteron 170 to 2.6GHz on this volt I just wrote... 1.33V from bios SICK!

cool, thanks for the info. I'll try 1.275 and see what happens. I'm gonna take another stab at the PC tonight so appreciate the info.

I hope I can get the pc to run cooler... running 45C+ on stock clock sucks.

Is that 45+ idle? My is running 49~54C when crunching WCG (both cores at 100% load). And that is when oc'd from stock 2 GHz to 2.8 GHz @ 1.44V. And this is when set 1.275V in bios (without enable overvolt: off) ! It's insane how wrong the bios volts are! Misleading and downright dangerous if you are not aware and pump it up to 1.6V and get more like 1.7V!!