[Crysis]

Hi all, let it be known that I am somewhat of a noob right now when it comes to OC'ing so bare with me , I seem to be having some issues with my current setup. Specs:

Intel E8600
Gigabyte EP45T-Extreme
Transcend DDR3 1333 2GB CL9
ATi Gecube 4870 512mb
PSU same as in sig

I picked up the motherboard a few days ago, the board that I originally bought was the Rampage Formula, unfortunately that is now late by 1 month so I picked this board up to pass the time

I finally received a decent enough cooler to run the system, a CM Hyper TX2. Currently I've got my system out on my bench table. I decided that right now I can try some FSB clocks and see what happens while I wait for some LN2 goodies to arrive. The board clocked really, really well, eventually topping out at 595Mhz FSB @ 1.64V

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This was all last night. I thought why not and cranked up the voltage to 1.8V (highest the board can go) and tried it out. Unfortunately it couldnt break 595Mhz, so I stopped. The 1.8V run was done once so I thought I couldnt do too much damage. I got up this morning with the intention to see if I could try anything to get to the magic 600 mark. This is what I was met with @ 570Mhz 1.6V

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I can assume that what happened wasnt good, so I nudged it down and decided to try to run my CPU @ 4.6Ghz to try and get some SuperPI runs in. No matter what I tried the system would always restart, no matter what FSB or voltage. I even tried 1.52V @ 4.5V and nothing. So now I'm worried, cause I think I might have damaged the board doing those suicide runs. Before I managed to clock my E8600 @ 5.0Ghz at 1.52V on my old Maximus Formula (very unstable), so this CPU can do way more.

Can anyone help me pinpoint the problem with my FSB clocks and just plain CPU speed? I'll try run the CPU on my Rampage when I get it, it should be in on Monday I hope. But anyone have any ideas?

Also the board doesnt have the proper NB cooling, link, could that be a reason for some of the problems?

Just remember, I'm fairly new to this, I've had a few guys point out that I shouldnt try anything above 550Mhz on air, unfortunately that was after the benching, but other guys are saying its encouraging to see scores like that, so I'm at crossroads