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

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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.

first of all, thanks for the quick reply.

i measured it with all programs i can think of. cpuid hwmonitor, speedfan, everest etc... all latest version.

i have now set my fsb to 1333 again (stock), and manually set vcore voltage in bios to 1.15V and it booted fine, yet, all these programs now show my Vcore voltage to be around 1.65 (which i'm pretty sure it has been since i got it from the shop). any idea how that can be?

it may be worth mentioning that the 3.3V voltage is not reported by EVEREST nor by HWMonitor, is reported by speedfan as 0.0 (which must mean it can't get the value?) and shows in the bios as 3.9V... this lead me to believe at least that sensor is faulty, since apparently EVEREST and speedfan have problems with it... but then again, i may be wrong.

ps. wolfdale is 45nm.