925X Neo Platinum O/C Question

Ok, basically i think i fried my sound card overclocking my processor, now ive been told it was because i needed to lock PCI, well I was wondering whether anyone knows how to do this on my motherboard the 925X Neo Platinum. Also is it necessary, and is there anything else I should look out for when overclocking
My memory is set to 600 though it is 533, and this automatically as set my processor to 3.58ghz
All help and suggestions would be very welcome, cheers

Ive tried Oc this board a little, but with rather bad performance, ad you can see in my sig. The system will not post after 220 in FSB so im just keeping it at 215. I dont think its the heat  because its really stable right now. Ive tried unlocking the CPU ratio, but then I cant change it,e.g. 16to17, so its really not working. And of course I will not try to fry my system as Im a little short on cash right now, no mopney for replacements. How high have you got your CPU? And how?

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