Help me - I'm an Overclocking Beginner

Glad you're sorted (points and laughs ;))

Again, I'm not an Intel person, but I thought that chip ran cooler than that? You may want to do some research on that and maybe re-seat the heatsink. What heatsink are you using - maybe if you bought a better one you could put some more volts through it and get the 4GHz.

As for the RAM ... bench with both settings and see.
 
Well at 3.8 it idles at 38 and load tops out at 50 degrees so I'm happy with that.

Just tried running 3DMark and it crashed on the CPU bit, will up the voltage a tiny bit more to see if that helps it along. OCCT passes fine, and Prime95 doesn't error straight off anymore either which is good.

The heatsink I have is the Zalman CNPS9500-LED with the fan blowing the air upwards, which is ideal as the Case is an Antec P180 so the 120mm fan above it sucks the hot air straight out. There is another 120mm fan sat at the back of the case (basically right next to the top exhaust) also blowing out the hot air - is this good? (I never really paid much attention to airflow before in all honesty).

The northbridge also has a Cooler Master RT-UCL-L4U1 Blue led fan heatpipe jobby which keeps the northbridge temp static at 32 degrees which is ok I guess.
 
I have that heatsink and personally I think it's great. If you are using that then I would image your temps are fine - just put my comments down to lack of experience with Intel.

That sounds like a great fan setup there, with 2 120 exhausts next to the heatsink. I have the Antec P160, with 1 120 exhaust in the back of the case and my temps are great.

Try upping the volts a bit if it isn't stable. It's long, but give this article a read - it will give you some ideas maybe and an idea of what volts to use for each clock.
 
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