Help With Overclocking AMD Phenom II x6 1035t

Hello, I have recently ran into some problems when attempting to overclock my new(less than 5 days old setup).
The motherboard I had purchased comes with 2 switches called MSI Easy OC Switch. I have enabled both of these for a 20% Increase and booted up with several problems including a windows HDD Integrity check fail of some sort. I quickly worked through those problems with no real losses and continued with running a few stress tests with 20% enabled. I Blue Screened several times as well as having other memory errors from windows.
So, I decided to bump it down to 10% for a while and it was stable for the most part and ran without problems for a day or so until I started having BSoD's with that as well. My question would be if there is any way to overclock this setup while remaining safe and or stable for the most part. I have advanced bios functions for manual OC but I have yet to try them. So far from what I can tell the problems I am having would be related to the ram OC, I personally have heard the OC switch on the Motherboard not only increases FSB but also OC's RAM. If anyone has any suggestions or comments on how this may be resolved that would be great.
My Build Specifications are below:
Mobo: MSI 760gm e51
CPU: AMD Phenom II x6 1035t
RAM: 2x 4GB Corsair XMS3 1333Mhz
Power Supply: DiabloTek Elite 450 Watt PSU

i m not sure that u can achieve some sort of voltage stability with this psu, i ll not give oc a try with such thing ;-)

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Well it looks like no one wants to help or can't!
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I think I will just sell my MSI board and buy a Gigabyte or Asus as they seem to have a much better forum with people that have the seem boards and are willing to Help!
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Last MSI product that I will buy.
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