TL;DR Registry cleaners triggered a once stable ring ratio and voltage OC to become wildly unstable.
Thanks! Sorry about the very late response. I agree, though in my case i believe the fan locations are set quite well. Cooler is set in the top left in exhaust and is supplemented by exhaust fan. While the bottom intake and front bottom right corner intake are positioned to blow cool air into and towards the tri fan gpu. The other front intake is set just above the other and bows straight towards cooler and over ram sticks. I suppose it's a matter of debate, though when researching cooling guides, recommendations. It seemed optimal to have more intake that exhaust. Since this post however I have lowered my intake speed, and have spent a lot of time researching OC guides, and have tweaked and retweaked my settings..
Results. Phenomenal!! 6367 in time spy, 13th best for my build: hit the jackpot with my gpu!! Temps still too high though.
Soon after, I ran a registry cleaner... Then. Shit. Got. Fucked.
Before continuing on, an *Important* note is that I have reinstalled cooler twice now (yesterday, being the last). I am damn near positive that I cannot, for the life of me install that monstrosity straight into the case (other option is removing the mobo, will may try that if my problems persist), and about 3 months ago now, I reinstalled it for the first time to realign the exhaust fan over ram, I had my younger brothers friend help screw it on, who then promptly, scratched the mono, nothing deep, but still multuple small scratches; and am mildly concerned that may affecting pc now.
Without further ado, Ccleaner registry cleaner has fucked everything (i did so as i had recently uninstalled a shit load of bloatware and programs) Very soon after I received one of my first ever BSOD... (gradually became more/less frequent) I have since then tried reinserting the registry using the provided file, clearing cmos, clean installing nvidia drivers again plus a few other times in varying order with regards to these steps/ restore to restore point/ etc./ wound up running registry cleaner 6 times in total **Why on God's green Earth would someone do that?? Well... First off, I'm an idiot. Second off, the original i assumed hadn't restored correctly- as i had already clean installed nvidia drivers- so, I ran it again after a day of troubleshooting, restored, no avail, ran 3 more times in a last ditch attempt to rid my self of overlapping, corrupt files.** lesson learned: Fuck registry cleaners!
Now here's the real kicker... I discovered that my once stable CPU OC was now wildly unstable, and the apparent root cause of my crashes (which started immediately after original registry cleaner) For a long while I was able to run 4.4 ring ratio with 1.19v. Though after resetting OC, in order to accurately trouble shoot, I now am unable to go above 4.3 ring ratio, which demands a whopping 1.24v!!
I am currently running a full system reset, to rid myself of these jerryatrics, and upon completion flashing my bios...
Absolutely any insight, fixes, threads, or anything what all of this may mean is greatly appreciated.
Many thanks!