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[hotchoc]

my temps are like 53-55 load

idle is about 42-45

[Forceman]

my temps are like 53-55 load

idle is about 42-45

If you are only in the 50s under load you can try upping the CPU voltage some more and see if that helps. At some point you will hit a wall where the amount of voltage required for the oc is generally not worth it, but I don't know that you've hit that spot yet. Try upping the volts to 1.5 and see if that gets it stable. If so you have to decide if you are comfortable with it at that voltage, if it isn't stable there then you might just be out of luck or something else is your bottleneck, like the NB.