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Overclock causes freezing, northbridge to blame?

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Gawd
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So I've been getting these freezing problems for a long time. I've been assuming they were related to the board not being stable with 4 DIMM's populated of 1GB G.skill ram. To remedy the crashing caused by the ram i had to bump up the NB voltage to 1.30v(1.25 stock) so it's pumping out quite a bit of heat. Now, my computer runs stable when its running bone stock, but even a small bump in FSB will eventually cause my pc to crash after about ~4-5 hours of use.

This particular motherboard is passively cooled with a heat pipe, now my question is would the excessive NB heat be causing it to crash? I usually get about 5 hours of solid use before it freezes up on me, but i can run 3 hours of IBT and it comes back 100% every time.

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Position a fan to blow over the NB heatsink and see if that stops the crashing. If it does, the heat is the problem. If it isn't, the issue probably has a different cause.
 
Bump the volts to the nb to 1.4, the fsb to 1.3 and position a fan over the volt regulators next to the cpu.
 
Moved a fan over the northbridge and it didn't help with the freezing problem. I bumped up the voltage on NB to 1.4 and it wouldn't even make it to windows before crashing and restarting.

I'm starting to think that this board is just a hunk of junk, or the hardware i picked for it is not playing well with it.
 
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