ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

[J.A.]

My adventure with this motherboard:

I have this motherboard with the below setup for over a year now. The CPU is overclock to 3GHz and fully stable (with increase NB voltage, but I don’t remember by how much offhand).

One day (few months ago) my system was acting weird so I open it up to see what was wrong with it. Turn out one of the hooks that hold the NB cooler in place had completely broken off and cooler was just dangling there and not making contact with the chip. I superglued the hook back on, but it was too weak to hold the CL-C0034 in place, so I had to put the original NB cooler back on.

Few weeks after that the top PCIEx16 slot malfunctioned, so I had to move my video card (Sapphire Radeon X1900 XT 512MB) to the bottom slot, but not long after the video card died completely (tested with 3 different systems and monitors).

Bought a 7600GT to replace and just few days ago the 7600GT is also dead. Now here’s a nub question: can overclocking the CPU with increase NB voltage kill or shorten the lifespan of video cards? The video cards were not overclocked.

It's either that this mobo is shortening the lifespan of the graphic cards I put in it or I am just very unlucky.

I'm about to buy the 88000GT and now I'm unsure about putting it in this MB. Any suggestions?


Thanks.

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Specs:
Antec P180 Case
Intel E6600 @ 3GHz
Corsair Twin2X2048-PC2-8500C5
Tuniq Tower 120
Seasonic S12 600W
Jing Ting JTS0006 chipset cooler for SB
Thermaltak CL-C0034 chipset cooler for NB