OC failed?

[LoneWolf]

last night i pushed my E6600 to 3.6Ghz, 400x9 @ 1.5v

to my surprise, as i surfed webpages and listened to music, there was a heavy distortion on my sound (using on-board, cause after SP1 for Vista my X-Fi doent work). i played COD4 and CS:S and my CPU monitor showed that both my cores were @ 100% and my Ram utilization was 85% all the time !! everything was unplayable

i've got 4GIG's of ram so i cant see how i can utilize 85% ? coreTemp showed my core were @ 40/41 under load....

is this a normal accurance for this type of cpu or is my cpu at the end of its life??

(mobo is a Asus P5B Delux WiFi/AP)

 

[killadoob]

what kind of cooling do you have on your north bridge

often ppl mistake a bad overclock with the cpu when its actually the north bridge overheating

also you should be able to drop those volts man because that alot of voltage

take it down to 1.4v and see if it still boots

to much voltage means unstable north bridge

go touch your north bridge heatsink and see if you cannot keep your finger on it for longer than 2 seconds you need to get some cooling it before it blows

 

[LoneWolf]

no additional cooling on northbridge except the std heatsink...

got Artic Freezer 7 Pro on cpu, so that should be the least of my worries !

i'll try to drop the voltages, but i only fiddle with the cpu voltage, not the northbridge or Southbridge. all of that is set to auto....
thanks for your advice though !