A suggested Asus A7V8X-X -specific fix to be included in the sample /etc/sensors.conf file as an MB-specific comment: The IT87 chip on Asus A7V8X-X seems to report the VCORE voltage approximately 0,05 volts higher as the board's BIOS does. I had the opportunity to check this with two CPUs, and while the amount is not exact, it seems to be a working fix for Athlon XP 1600+ and Athlon XP 2500+ on this motherboard. So I managed to correct this by setting a line compute in0 -0.05+@ , @+0.05 in /etc/sensors.conf I have little idea of the meanings of the compute line, and I'm not saying the formula is correct, but this did work for me.