MSI NEO 2 FIS2R 6728 questions

Guys, A couple of questions about my 865 PE Neo2 Fis2r board.
1. I'm running Speedfan and I've noticed something odd. My core voltage readings. I have a P4 Northwood 3.4 and here are my readings:  vcoreA: 1.54v   vcoreB: 2.21v
Why is coreB voltage so high? Is it normal for the voltage to be so high on coreb?
I also verified the reading using Everest and it matches Speedfan.
2. While I'm at it does anyone know why MSI stopped updating drivers for our boards?
For Instance on my board: Sound drivers for directX C were never updated the latest version is for directX B. I'm sure everyone knows how quickly sound driver can bring your rig to its knees.
Also the on board Sata and Promise 376/378 controller drivers are way outdated. If you go to any of the driver sites such as driver scan they these will come up quickly.
I went to intel site and found what I believe are the latest SATA, but couldn't find the correct ones on the Promise site or the DirectX C sound drivers on the Cmedia site for our boards.
ccb33

1) I think A stands for your CPU and B stands for your RAMs.
2) These are already EOL boards for some years already, it's common that they R&D for newer boards.

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    Originally posted by OC-Freak
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