Well, I've been playing 45nm on Maximus formula SE. NOt one setting on auto, definate degredation.


But, I noticed a while back that on occasion, FSB volts will be set to 2.0v(instead of 1.2v).

This bios bug has led me to change settings in bios, save and reboot, check settings are ok, reboot again, and verify again. Now, I check bios settings every time I turn the pc on("Discard changes" lets windows load without soft boot).

A few times tho, FSB volts are @ 2.0v again. Not too sure what's up with that...but i think this is the cause for my dying chip.

Anyone using auto settings...well...I must frown upon that...it's NOT PROPER OVERCLOCKING.

For example, @ 333FSB auto settings give 1.65v to NB, even though 1.2v is stable for 333mhz. Um...can you say overkill? If you think you have degredation...and are using auto settings...you've killed the chip yourself, in your lax clocking!