Overclocked PC 'soundloop' crash, can't isolate problem

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Hey all, as the title suggests I seem to be getting random 'sound loop' crashes when playing games that take up a lot of cpu/gpu usage.
My system is overclocked, it was perfectly stable some months ago but despite upping voltages quite high and having safe tempreatures I still seem to get these crashes as of recently.

My guess is that it could be anything but the PSU (Coolermaster 750w) and GPU (GTX 460) as i've rolled my GPU back to stock clocks and problem still persists. The rest of my overlock is:

  • E8400 @4ghz (1.41 BIOS vcore, reads 1,376V in CPU-Z)
  • Corsair XMS2 4gb RAM @ 890mhz (2.05v in BIOS, 5-5-5-12 latency)
  • Asus P5N-D motherboard with Northbridge and HT voltages both at 1.52v

Tempreatures are fine with CPU idling at 38-40c, max 55c under full load.
Motherboard temp (assuming it reads Northbridge or just general tempreature) idles at 36c~ and goes up to 45-50c under full load.

Though my tempreatures seem safe, i'm a bit reluctant to pump anymore volts into CPU/Mobo as i'm not sure if it will damage them.
Any ideas on how I could isolate whats going wrong and causing the crashes? they are rather infrequent but happen atleast 2-3 times a day which is still pretty frustrating but I want to eliminate them completley.

Thanks for reading, any advice/help appreciated!
 
I get the same thing. But only say once a month. Clock is stable temps are fine. Im guessing it could be the sound card drivers, unless someone else knows more.
 
My guess is memory. Run memtest and see if that throws up any problems.

Are you running 4x1 or 2x2GB?
 
Happens to me too. Had it once or twice in wow, but upping core voltage fixes that. Happens a lot in lfd2, helped a bit dropping overclock but not really by much :s
 
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