Post Your Overclock! [2]

Intel speedstep is supposed to drop the frequency to 1.6GHz at idle and light usage. When you stress the CPU it jumps up to where you overclocked it. Ivy Bridge is designed to be overclocked by the turbo speed, similar to Sandy Bridge.Try running Prime95 for a while with CPUz and your temp monitoring program open and see what it does, but it should not go down to 800Mhz. I would also suggest leaving the bclk at 100. Raising it will help overclock the CPU, but it also overclocks the PCIE and ram too. I have raised mine too but just for benchmarking and such, but it runs at 100 for every day use. The CPU is a lot tougher than many people realize. As a last resort, I would try to reflash bios, to see if that would help. I had to do that to mine once, but for different reasons.

Use Core Temp. But, that's better than an RMA of the board. Real Temp caused my Sandy Bridge CPU and P67 board to do some funky things. Event viewer kept showing cores shutting down due to heat. It was not happening. It took a while, but I realized that the errors were showing up when I opened Real Temp.

It does not show voltage, it shows VID which is something different.

I have always found Core Temp to be pretty accurate. It does differ from the Asus suite, but I don't know if it is true, but I've read that Asus is giving Tcase temps and Core Temp is giving TJ max temps, which are always going to be different.

Good advice, above.

If that doesn't fix the problem, un-install all the AI Suite programs.
Have seen all motherboard programs, not just Asus, cause a lot of problems. In the BSoD forum, we recommend to un-install them if we see them and it does help in a fairly large percentage of cases.
If there is no difference you can always re-install them, though I wouldn't recommend it, there are a lot of programs that will work better.
Having said that, nearly all monitoring programs have issues on new released boards/chipsets, they usually get fixed at some point.

There's always problems with new technology. It takes a while for the developers to catch up. The price you pay for having the newest gadgets. It seems like sometimes, when you set something for a while, it sticks there. That's why I had to flash my bios again. I flashed it to the same bios version and be sure to set optimized defaults after flashing. Also, to me, setting Vcore to auto is like saying take all you want. It will almost always overvolt more than needed. Just my opinion.