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I haven't resolved it yet. I'm about 80% convinced it's a motherboard incompatibility with the proc, but the other 20% of me thinks it's either the memory, the CPU, the BIOS settings, or out of date/incorrect drivers. I'm downloading and installing driver updates now, but if that doesn't work I'll post a picture of my BIOS settings and see if you guys can see anything wrong. I'm starting to get BSODs when running OCCT or P95 after following some suggested BIOS tweaks (I probably did it wrong), but temps are still stable and cool, so it's not heat. I did OC the memory up to 1333 from 1066 though, with voltage set to 1.55v, not sure if that's causing the BSODs or not. Someone also mentioned I might want to up the voltage a little on the NB, which I haven't tried yet (have no clue what to set it to, and there are two NB voltage settings (NB and CPU NB), which is weird). Someone also suggested cranking up the LLC, but I can't find it in there anywhere, so maybe I don't have it (?).
It's possible that you don't have LLC, not all boards have it. What I'd do if I was you is try to get it running with everything at stock and see if you get any crashes / instability then. The memory is quite a bottleneck there, but if it's rated at 1066 then that's where I would start. Stock timings and speed on the RAM, set everything to default, disable turbo and APM as I've noticed that messing with the stress tests and try stressing it a bit like that. Your main target should be getting everything stable at stock, then you can try OCing the RAM to 1333, add some voltage (don't go over 1.65v would be my advice, if the modules are rated at 1.5v then 1.55v/1.6v should be ok). Increasing CPU NB voltage may also help with stabilizing the RAM OC.
You're looking at CPU NB settings, which is actually the memory controller integrated in the CPU. The other NB is part of the motherboard and I don't think you should change anything with that.
Try RAM at stock 1066 and stock volts, CPU at 4000 with turbo and APM disabled, all voltages on stock. See if that's stable.
Your board DOES support 140w CPUs, but not FX chips above 95w. It supports 140w Phenom IIs. I wouldn't overclock the CPU at all on that board, nor would I increase the voltage. If any, I'd try to see if I can get it to run at 4GHz with a bit of undervolting.
. Well, there are no more BSoDs, but other than that, OCCT errors within 15 seconds, P95 cores 5, 6, 7 and 8 all fail within seconds. The first 4 cores seem to stay stable.
