i was a die-hard overclocker, but it's been a while. i've never used that CPU, but from experience, half of the time, it's the RAM that causes crashes when overclocking a CPU. Try playing with the RAM divider and latency numbers. it's very very hard to have a 1:1 RAM and CPU overclocked. Almost all the time, you'll have to lower the RAM speed to begin with and work up from there. Lower your RAM speed so that when you've achieved the desired CPU speed you want, the RAM speed with be just around the stock speed. After that has been tested and is stable enough, now play with the RAM speed/latency with a slower CPU speed. This is to see what the max speed your CPU and RAM can handle.
I like to overclock and test my system this way when i use to do it on Socket 939, but i'm sure the newer CPU's can't be that much different when overclocking.
1. Divide RAM speed by half or however much in Bios. Play with CPU speed at stock voltage to see its max speed and still stable.
2. Up CPU speed until it is unstable and then back it down to where it was stable.
3. Now, play with the voltage....
4. Do the same for the ram... gets frustrating... So many other things that you have to mess with too. Multiplier, heat/temperature, PSU powerful enough?, bad RAM? (use Memtest), certain mobos don't like filling all ram slots with ram when overclocking, etc...
Even with the same mobo+RAM+CPU, using someone else's setup doesn't always guarantee a stable overclock. I ran prime95 for almost 24 hrs straight to consider it stable.
overclocking.n et and extremeoverclo cking.com will be your best friends. Learned a lot from those sites over the past several years.
