cool thanks, i've been up the past 5 hours messing with my ram timings and such... max load turned out to be 58c.

but i gave up on the OC. nothing was stable- all gave me errors in windows. not only that, windows and its programs+services started up slower than at stock fsb. Not only that, I have to sacrifice a sata drive just to use only sata3/4.

The final settings on which i gave up on was...

FSB = 228, vcore 1.3 + 10%, vdimm 2.8, 2-3-2-5, (didn't play around with these values as much as the subtimings... trcd, trrd and twrt were the ones i messed around with...)

maybe my psu just isn't stable enough, CPU not cool enough... or just plain bad luck. If you got any tips on stability, let me know, i haven't seen any with my getup. Probably should try 2-3-3-5/6... maybe that'd do it. But I just feel unlucky to have to resort to those timings while people elsewhere are getting lower.