Originally Posted by justinkb
hi guys, i got a question for youjust got a striker ii formula a few weeks ago and i've been having fun OC'ing my E8400 (and my two 8800GT's in SLI). i'm a bit worried though about my Vcore voltage. i haven't done any volt mods or anything but it shows up as over 1.8V (sometimes near 1.9V!), and my 3.3V voltage shows as around 3.9V. temperatures and stability is fine, and i'm just using stock fan to get it to 3.74GHz (from 3GHz). now, what i'm thinking is, that the voltage reported is erroneous. how likely is it that a bunch of the sensors on the motherboard are broken? or is there probably really 1.9V on my cores?
temperatures never exceed 75 under full 2h orthos load, and it never errors out then either. hope you guys can give me some of your insights
I highly doubt the sensors are wrong. What programs did you use to measure.
Also the voltage can be erratic if you dont manually set it accordingly,
and seing that you are getting up to 75c at a mere 3.74ghz I'd say it is indeed your voltage increasing.
Cease and Desist immediatly. Unless you know the dangers, understand electromigration, and the effects of heat and want damage to occure then you seriously want to get that voltage to a safe level, no chip, not even 65nm should have 1.8v put into unless strictly for benching and with adequate (extreme) cooling.
You may be lucky and find it is the program your using, not made after the e8400, then
find another program, and you are good to go. But if you are unlucky, then you may be in danger of
damaging your chip
Read guides if your not familiar with overclocking.
The board has loads of quirks/qualms and strange things happen with these nvidia chipsets, which is why it would not surprise me that your Vcore is being incorrectly adjusted as you overclock if it is still set to auto.
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