Hello there.....umm..I decided to go and push my overclock further, above 3....it went to 3 pretty well....3.1....crashed...increased vcore...crashed...increased again, crashed...increased to 1.375 i think...then it worked okay....ram got very fast...benchmarks pretty wild...ram was running on 900and its 667 stock...anyways....out of no where..i heard click click...from the casing...click......cluck...like this.....i opened up the case...again...click....cluck..I couldnt make out where it came from....the CPU or the RAM...but it was in that area......I ran a ram benchmark...and I heard...click cluck..chuck....did it again and same sound....then I switched off the PC...ran again.....the loading screen took longer this time....and then the Windows loading screen never came up....I switched off, back on, same thing....Then i unplugged....opened up...took out the hard drive cables, plugged again....started this time....Bios loading screen slow...windows loading screen came up, but it took 1 minute for windows to start!....then it went in to windows....seemed to LAG...like lagging.....I ran benchmarks....they were all good...expected results.....but windows seemed to be lagging.....Finally I formatted and did a fresh install....now its all good...im sitting on 3.0Ghz now...not going any further
....what happened? Anybody has an idea?...I got scared there for a while
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and its 667 stock...anyways....out of no where..i heard click click...from the casing...click......cluck...like this.....i opened up the case...again...click....cluck..I couldnt make out where it came from....the CPU or the RAM...but it was in that area......I ran a ram benchmark...and I heard...click cluck..chuck....did it again and same sound....then I switched off the PC...ran again.....the loading screen took longer this time....and then the Windows loading screen never came up....I switched off, back on, same thing....Then i unplugged....opened up...took out the hard drive cables, plugged again....started this time....Bios loading screen slow...windows loading screen came up, but it took 1 minute for windows to start!....then it went in to windows....seemed to LAG...like lagging.....I ran benchmarks....they were all good...expected results.....but windows seemed to be lagging.....Finally I formatted and did a fresh install....now its all good...im sitting on 3.0Ghz now...not going any further
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) and kept bouncing around in the fan cage as the fans were spinning. The PSU did not survive the first twelve months.
....well I guess 3.0ghz...a 60% overclock is fine, ill stick....but...sad 