I clocked back to stock setting a long time ago.
If you research Asus and the maximus formula (republic of gaming) mother boards you will see they have awesome reviews and asus makes things so easy that even a dumb dumb can oc without any problems and if its un stable you just push a button on the back of the mobo.
Also researching my board in specific with the code that pops up on the lcd screen that plugs into the mobo it is a dead pci-e slot.
Power supply I changed to a much better unit or today’s builds corsair hx850.
I really hate amd but I might make a amd budget build since it will be so much cheaper then the intel build I want.
New motherboard I want is $389, ram is $100+, cpu $220, gfx $300(bought), psu $190 before mib(bought), 250-500 gb solid state hard drive, windows 7 ultimate 64bit $220. lost my old xp key code and cd so i think i might have to start from scratch on a fresh windows cd.
I am also looking into just buying another used mobo and cpu combo that may be better then my current setup so I have more time to research.