like a said no s*** i just flashed the bios of the acer update website but it still seems some of the programs i run are conflicting with the processor im looking at the voltage and it rises accordingly with the giant pickups i do have a different cooling system installed and have taken it to 3 pc tech guys who claim no charge if they cant fix it and it has each and everyone of them stumped they came down to bad programming and i thought i should turn to a hardware mods forum for some hopefully useful explanations to my apparent problem dxdiag screws it around and it even occurs under a cpu stress test i have one real time cpu monitoring tool that records the spikes too and they mach those displayed in the turbo boost gadget