Gigabyte P965-P35 X38 overclocking and BIOS tweaking Guide

Nope. Touched the RAMS and NB heatsinks with my thermal probe. Only felt warm even after 15 seconds.

Prime95 has been running for 3 hrs now. No errors so far. Temp is averaging 67 degrees celcius.

Originally Posted by orubasarot

I'm not an expert at all, just a bit of personal experience, but touch your NB heatsink. Hurts? That's when I BSOD is when it hurts.

See if your situation improves by blowing as much cold air as you can on it, with a fan or whatever you got. If you see any improvement at all then I'd suggest googling what I mentioned and checking out those third party NB coolers, because it seems like yours was revised later on, according to that link you posted.

A short update to my OC. Was able to get a stable 3.0 Ghz OC running. However, my temperatures when I was doing the Intel Burn test was 80 degrees. Is that too hot? Should I maybe lower my OC? (I already tried loweing the CPU voltage, but it would BSOD when running the intel burn test).

80C is fine with the Burn Test running, it makes (it is its job) the CPU about as hot as it will ever get and hotter than it will get under any kind of normal use. It is a worst case testing tool. Your CPU does not even consider itself hot until around 100C but most of us like to give the CPU some breathing room. Nothing to worry about. Of course if there are easy things you can do to improve case airflow or cpu cooling lower is always better.