well, that makes me feel a bit better, it's just quite frustrating, because the system seems to want to roll at 2500+, but i just can't get it stable

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i was thinking about switching to a thermalright heatpipe sink, but screw that. i'm going to eventually watercool this bastard, and i don't see any sense in spending $50+ for 2 degrees until whenever i find the time to finally wc. then i'll run 2+ volts on it, and not really care if it goes boom