Ah ic, is the TurboV you're talking about part of that asus suite? If so, I may have to install it to see. I'm basing all my info on what cpuz shows me with regards to cpu load voltage right now. Still puzzled as to why my vcore doesn't increase during load. I just downloaded that y cruncher program in your sig and it's barely loading my system to 55 degrees. I'll reboot into optimized defaults and check out what my base vcore is with 0 offset once it's done the stress test. also, when i set it to stress test, it asked me how much ram. i have 4gb installed so i selected 3gb to test and leave the rest for the os, would that be the correct choice? the next option was 5gb which i dont have.