Maximum PC

I used to use it my Q9300, but now that I fold it's useless and I turned it off. I noticed it let me OC about .1Ghz higher without any voltage increase.

Hmmmm... never had this problem until yesterday.
Now maybe about once in a few hours, the computer will "hiccup" so to speak.

The mouse is free to move, but nothing is clickable, and the screen is froze for a solid minute to minute and a half.


My temps are fine...all drivers/software is up to date. No malware/virus detected.

Throttle, clock, voltage... everything checks out.

So I am thinking it's the Dell mobo?

Does it 'come back' without any intervention?

Do you need to kill processes or anything or does it just start working again?

Finally, when it is frozen, can you launch the Task Manager?

Does it happen while running at stock speeds?

I doubt it is a hardware problem. Generally, hardware problems are digital: they either work or they don't. Since the mouse can move, the PC is responsive, so that rules out a mobo problem (99% of the time .. PCs are funny creatures).

Answering the above questions will help us diagonse.

Does it 'come back' without any intervention?
-Yes it does.

Do you need to kill processes or anything or does it just start working again?
-Just comes back by itself.

Finally, when it is frozen, can you launch the Task Manager?
-No, I can not. Alt tab, windows button, ctrl-alt-del, nothing. The only thing I can move is the mouse.

Does it happen while running at stock speeds? Yes.

* Been running it at stock for the last few days, and it seems it's doing better.
However there are those occasions where my mouse will stutter/skip a section of the screen. Like something is loading and bogging down my cpu.
Not real sure what it is. But thank you all for helping me in this thread.