sounds like something is wrong other than cooling. if you say it got to 45c at load before and didnt crash it shouldnt crash at 45c at idle either. see what i mean.
you said that even when the 6800 was not in the cooling loop u had to back down to 208 on ur fsb. It seems you have some sort of compatiblity issue with your hardware. the 6800 doesnt seeem to like the higher fsb on your mobo for some reason.
About your temps being higher. I would reseat the cpu as etacovda said. sounds like u got issues there. but another culprit could be the small rad and high restriction system you got. But you system should not crash at those temps thought. I was running my xp2600 at 1.95v and 2.8ghz and it was doing fine. just as long as it was below 120f. granted it didnt ever get to 120f unless i turned my rad fans down to nothing... but ...
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