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It's the fact that you don't want to torch your CPU like the Nazis did the Jews during WWII. You were destroying the life of it by running those voltages. What are your temps right now under full load at 3.9GHz/1.57v?
There are MANY other BIOS settings you need to adjust to get high OC's. Just cranking up the vCore will only get you so far.
Go look in your BIOS. I'm sure you'll see A LOT of settings related to different voltages and reference voltages. These settings are your friend!
It's the fact that you don't want to torch your CPU like the Nazis did the Jews during WWII. You were destroying the life of it by running those voltages. What are your temps right now under full load at 3.9GHz/1.57v?
thanks for all your input, especially dominick for giving me a place to start. Speaking of that, that is exaclty what i did. I took it to 3.7 and 1.45 volts. It is stable after 2 hours but My temp went up to exactly 65c at highest. (i did orthos priority 10 small fft) do u guys still think that ac5 and a zalman 9500 allows those temps? Anyway, I will work my way from here and will post later.
ok i kept raising the fsb from 3.7 to 3.72 then to 3.75 and then it crapped out so i raised voltages to 1.47 and after an overnight 8.5 hours, it was stable and at 66c. Ima at least get to 3.8 because 1.55 is a while away!
I am running at actual 1.67 volts ( thats 1.7625 in nview)
I will also restate the fact you need to upgrade that PSU. You can get a Corsair 520HX for ~80 depending on what sale you can catch. The thing about PSU's is when they blow they tend to take motherboards,ram,cpu's, and gpus with them.