BSOD After OC

allright well i recently OC'D my CPU AMD Athlon X2 3800+ to 2.3ghz and well just to be safe i bought a new fan (artic cooling freezer 64 pro) and the paste (Artic Silver5) applied both and got everything running but now im curious to see if i can OC a little more like stated in another thread basically anything over 2.3ghz was unstable and once i hit 2.4ghz i got the bsod. i was just wondering what could be causing the bsod (to fast for me to read) and what can i do to fix it? by unstable i mean everything would work fine then all the sudden after a while the mouse and keyboard would stop working, mouse dissapeared, and keyboard was completly unfunctional.

~Thanks

When you OC you push the hardware faster than it was meant to go. What's most likely causing your BSOD now, is the memory. When you increase the HTT it also means your speeding up the RAM. 800MHz DDR would mean that every time you up the HTT by 1MHz your increasing the ram by 2MHz. Sometimes an Overclock may seems stable but actually isn't. You should run Memtest+86 for a few hours to really check the stability of the system.

A way you can squeeze out more speed from the RAM is to increase the voltage, which some RAM modules simply won't take. Also, you can loosen your timings, but that would slow things down, so it'd be better to have a lower HTT with tighter timings... to a point.