Quote Originally Posted by pershoot View Post
your running too hot, and the chip could be failing stress at oc settings as a result, in my opinion. please try to get this temperature down and then try to re-oc.

take an average of your temp using ITE smartguardian and CoreTemp. It would also be a good idea to get a thermal probe on the heatsink/waterblock if you are able to, so you can add in to the calculated average.
Well often it fails before it even gets a chance to heat up. Like if I try 3.5 at stock vcore, I'm lucky if the OS boots. I've been using smartguardian to monitor temps. Core Temp would act funky (temp would get stuck it seems). Anyway, other than the floor fan I don't have many options to lower temps, but I'll post back here if I think of something. I don't own an external temp probe.

Quote Originally Posted by chew* View Post
Cybercat might I make one other suggestion, Your using 8 gigs with all 4 dimm slots populated, this tends to add stress to the mem0ry controller.( yes i know how to spell )

Try running only 4 gigs and see what you can acchieve, I know you probably have no plans to run 24/7 with 4 gigs but it would help determine what is limitng your OC.
Yeah I've played around the with memory. Underclocked it, took some sticks out, etc. I didn't try memtest like you suggested earlier though. Either way it didn't make any difference in stability. It seemed like a memory problem when it kept BSOD (memory dump) but never failed prime. But I don't think it is. I appreciate your help, I think either there are some BIOS issues or I just have a dud. Anandtech was able to get 3.9GHz with stock cooling on my board with an ES.