**Official ASUS Striker II Formula Discussion/Review/Overclock/Guide/BIOS Thread**

[holystarlight]

Well Intel recommends no more than 71.4 degrees, and with upping the Vcore to keep it stable, I just hit 72 degrees running Prime95 but that probably was only very briefly. I'm hoping its the tight ram timings that are preventing me from being fully stable @ 3.7, and that I can reduce the Vcore a bit...

Not sure if it means anything but I failed prime @ 2hrs, then @ 4hrs, and then @ 2hrs again, even though the Vcore went up one notch every time I tried again Perhaps I need to look at some other settings?

I'm determined not to kill this chip, but if I do there's no RMA since I lapped it At least if I do kill it, the price for a replacement has dropped by £60 since I bought it 3 weeks ago lol

Lol, Try using OCCT for testing stability, gives accurate testing from my experience, but you might wanna disable the bulit in temperature readings in that program and use something like Real temp,
have you manual set the votlages in the bios btw? because sometimes it overloads it when its not even needed and can case some issues and unnecessary heat,
I remember when I forgot and left OCCT on and went out and got home few hours later and Real temp said that my CPU was running at 81c and my face just dropped...and at the speed of light I switched my computer off and lowered the voltages and left it for a few hours to cooldown, was so scared that I cooked my CPU but luckly it was only running at that temperature for a few minutes xD