Burn-In Time?

[Flyermax2k3]

I just installed a TT Volcano 7+ with some antec reference silver thermal compound (yeah yeah, I know it's not AS3 but it's better than that white goop you get with everything) and I let it sit overnight before even powering up the system. I also put new (bigger) ramsinks on the back of my GF4 Ti 4200 which blocks the first ram slot so I had to move my ram to the second slot. I also put some TT ramsinks on my ram, but I had been running with those on for a day or two before installing the new HSF & ramsinks for my GF4. Now I seem to have trouble running the system at anywhere near the FSB I used to be able to. I'm stuck at a measly 140MHz vs. my previous 151MHz. I can't even get into Windows above this speed (I get the dreaded BSOD mentioning KMODE error and some memory address, it says to turn off bios caching and shadowing which I did but that didn't exactly do the trick). Any ideas what the problem could be? Did I put too much silver compound on the CPU? Is it the ram slot I'm using? Those are the only two things I can think of really... Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

 

[MrEgo]

What kind of motherboard do you have? If it is an Epox 8RDA, the single RAM stick should go in the very far right bank (the Lone bank).

As for the AS3.. you hardly need any at all. actually you really shouldn't even be able to see the thickness of it if you looked at it from a side view... I just turned the core grey.. the thickness of the AS3 I put on there is literally immeasurable by human eyes. I suppose it works since my temps hover around 38C with my 2100 Tbred B chip OC'ed to 2300MHz with 1.75V.

Otherwise.. I'd blame it on the Volcano 7+. That thing was the hardest heatsink I've ever put on a CPU.. its a straight up beast. I found it harder than hell to get it to balance flat on top of the core. I don't know how much of a difference that makes in determining your max FSB though, but hopefully you're pretty good at installing heatsinks, because there is a chance of crushing the core (like I did in my first days of installing them).

 

[Flyermax2k3]

I'm using an MSI KT3 Ultra 2 (for now) until I get my 8rda+ in the mail I've been running prime95 torture test for the past couple hours and temps haven't gone above 42 degrees even with other programs running (a couple IE windows, outlook, temp monitoring program) and it's at 1.75V. Of course, that's only at 2.1GHz (15x140) but I used to get over 50 degrees on my old XP 1700+ @ 2000+ w/Volcano 7+ under the same circumstances so I'd say that's probably not too bad.