The Phenom II List of Overclocks

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Well often it fails before it even gets a chance to heat up. Like if I try 3.5 at stock vcore, I'm lucky if the OS boots. I've been using smartguardian to monitor temps. Core Temp would act funky (temp would get stuck it seems). Anyway, other than the floor fan I don't have many options to lower temps, but I'll post back here if I think of something. I don't own an external temp probe.

Yeah I've played around the with memory. Underclocked it, took some sticks out, etc. I didn't try memtest like you suggested earlier though. Either way it didn't make any difference in stability. It seemed like a memory problem when it kept BSOD (memory dump) but never failed prime. But I don't think it is. I appreciate your help, I think either there are some BIOS issues or I just have a dud. Anandtech was able to get 3.9GHz with stock cooling on my board with an ES.

Did you pass prime blend or just small fft's? If not blend try it if it passes small fft's and not blend your memory timings/subtimings need to be tweaked.