am i blessed, lucky or is there a rational explanation

[edlemur]

In my old PC with a 6200, when i knew nothing on overclocking, i ended up uverclocking it too much and constantly got BSOD. After a week or two, it seemed as if my PC magically regained stability and i never saw a BSOD on the PC since.

Now with my 8800gts, i was running perfectly at 575core and 888mem (no artifacts and perfect stability). then, i decided to take it up to the XFX 8800gts XXX specs by bumping it up to 580 and 900. it was with that tiny bump that it seemed i lost all stability. I got a BSOD about 4 times a day. Now, just 3 days later, I havent seen one and it seems as if my new PC magically regained stability.

Is there a rational explanation for regained stability after a failed overclock. And how does this happen?

 

[CTho9305]

Did you lower the thermostat on your air conditioner? Did you stop running a hair dryer or microwave or ... on the same circuit as your computer? Did your cat stop sleeping next to your warm exhaust fan, blocking the airflow? Did a component un-overclock itself? Did a dust bunny fall off a heatsink/fan? Did you hard drive revert from DMA to PIO due to i/o errors? Did anything change about the programs you run on the PC? It could be anything.

 

[edlemur]

nothing has changed. and the part that baffles me is that its happened to me on two different PCs.