I use Prime-95 as a stability tester and Core temp to monitor CPU temps. The only reason I run CPU-Z is for showing folks my o/c (I already know my CPU thanks).

I EXPECT this to be ironed out with the CPU-Z folks sooner rather than later and in the meantime, I can live with these programs not working. I never had any issues with CPU-Z with Win8 DP so problems are fairly recent.

I am fairly confident that this is purely a Win8 CP/ CPU-Z issue possibly mixed with an ASUS mobo. I brought everything back to stock but that did NOT fix CPU-Z ( so don't bother). I also have my Sandy Bridge o/c to 4.4GHz and the memory to 1600 (its stated speed). All are reading the hardware and I am pretty sure that there are other issues with the SATA ports that causes intermittent lock ups when having heavy disk usage. One other program that will lock up the machine is AIDA64 (the old Everest program). The interesting thing is that we both have ASUS P8P67 (EVO in my case -heh, case get it?). THANK YOU Pete! I was not sure if it had something to do with just me!

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