Quote Originally Posted by evil-doer View Post
ok i need a bit of help here. i just bought my first intel in many many years and this overclocking seems a bit confusing with all the variables. first off heres what i bought.

p5b deluxe, newest bios installed
e6600
2x1gb kingston hyperx (khx6400d2llk2)
evga 8800 gts 640mb
antec sonata iii should be here next week.

without touching any voltages i tried 333x9 and 400x8 with the usual features turned on or off as per the guide here and other sites ive read. windows boots fine and runs for a while. but then a random program will hang, the window stops drawing itself, and if i try to kill the process it doesnt go away. and any other programs i try to start after that will not start. i also cannot shut down windows when its like this and i need to do a hard reset. doing a memtest with this overclock also gave errors, so i figured the ram needed more juice. i upped and upped it until i got to 2.3v and i didnt want to go any higher because that seemed high, and i still got programs freezing, altho after a longer period of time. so i figured i better start overvolting some other things. these settings are estimates because i dont want to reboot right now as im testing how stable it is (its been on overnight and its fine so far). the cpu is 1.3/1.4ish and fsb and nb are both at the first number thats purple.

so first ive gotta ask, that symptom of programs freezing like that, is that because of the memory only? or could it be the cpu as well? was i right in overvolting what i did? im really unsure of what i should do at this point.
thanks for any help.
You should list all your setting here, so we can try to help. What do you have ram freq set at? What psu are you using?