Everyone - Here's a leasson learned.

Gamin's post reminded me of a situation that everyone could learn from. This happened last year when I was overclocking my first system. As is expected, I experienced several BSODs and freezes. What I didn't realize at the time was when that happens you run the risk of slowly corrupting your hard disk. Mostly due to Windows delayed disk writes and caching. Anyway, after numerous occurances I was no longer able to boot Windows - to corrupted on the disk. The result was a complete re-install of the OS and all software - it took a couple of days - what a pain.

After that happend, I got a backup utility (Ghost). Now I always make a backup before I start an OC series - just in case. I really recommend using a backup utility before you start OCing.

FYI: If you buy one, make sure it support the size and type of HDDs that you use.