Heating Issue with P4

Hey Everyone
I've been reading alot lately in this forum, and there is lots of good info, but I was hoping that someone can help me out. I recently upgraded my PC, from a P4 2.53 GHZ with a Asus P4PE motherboard with cheap PSU and RAM and case to a Chenbro Xpider Case with 2 fans, 1 front blowing cold air in, and 1 in the back to blow air out, 3.06GhzE Prescott CPU, 2*256 OCS Platinum DDR3200 RAM, Enermax EG365P-VE, and a thermaltake Silent Tower heatsink and fan for CPU. and I also upgraded my IDE cables to the round ones, (don't know what they are really called) but the look good, and the make the air circulate better in the case am sure.
OK with that said, I was able to overclock my CPU from stock to 3.6 by changing my FSB to 240 also changing my DRAM Freq to 333 and changing my DDR voltage to 2.70 and finally the AGP/PCI is set at 67/33.5 the PC is running stable, but when their is a CPU load, like decrypting and playing mp3 with winamp, my CPU temperature goes from 49-50 degrees to 60-61 degree and then my PC just freezes.
Now I tried to lower my CPU speed to 3.25 by going with these settings:
DDR voltage:2.65
FSB: 225
Core Voltage: 1.537 (which I cannot change)
DRAM Freq: Auto
AGP/PCI: 67/33.5
and my PC will not even boot
can anybody help me and give me some suggestion on what speed should I O/C my CPU and keep in mine the temperature issue
thanks

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The temperatures you show for are actually OK.
I AGREE, thats not bad really... but properly applied thermal grease will only decrease those numbers
hopefully then you'll be able to keep a decent overclock...
i've found, that when i'm overclocking, and i see a huge difference in my temps, theres usually something wrong with the way i applied my thermal grease... or like something under the HS that i didn't see
(last time... when trying to get my duron to 2400 stable, i had a tiny speck of metal get in there... the machine would freeze as soon as it entered into cmos setup, no matter the speed.... took HS/F off... found that not much of the core was in contact with the HS, and there was a tiny speck of metal in there.....)
make sure you closely follow the directions on arctic silver website...
applying arctic silver 5 to a P4 is pretty simple... just put a dot in the middle "the superior flow capabilities" or whatever of version 5 allows u just to put a dot in the middle... and it will spread itself out... (with pressure from HS of course
:shrugs: a lot easier than the directions for AMD systems (w/o Heat spreader) i mean... you get used to it... but still... a lot less trouble...

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