No cause for any alarm. Glad you pointed that out for others. The T-20 are better suited anyways since those ensure the proper torque to bottom out causing the o-ring inside to seal evenly. Gong to the phiips causes runout with the screw driver, thus people are fooled thinking the screw...
Nice pix!
One thing looks a bit upside down .... the RAD.
Normally, the inlet/outlet fittings are on the bottom.
Your loop with the RAD fittings up top allows the coolant to dumb in, but is it dumping out like it should. And is there back pressure when the RAD is finally filled that...
Yes, usually starting off with a cooler Watt CPU is better to OC with. It gives you head room to push the envelope further up the Ghz/Mhz ladder.
Another OC limit is the memory timings. The FSB can lock up due to memory timing issues.
For the most part, I run stock. I can adjust on the...
I had an MSI with an OC PCU going strong for awhile. Then the black and blue screens arrived after a year. Well, it was a pre-warning, the CPU actually burned up. I tried to return to stock voltage, but that only gave me 1 extra week before the CPU died.
Bummer you CPU wasn't either of the 65W. CPUs tend to throttle back when pushed to the higher voltage and the watts in heat rises. If the thermal watts reach around 120W, then no matter how much you do on stock cooling, the CPU has reached it's limits.
It's been a few years, if I recall AMD had a few variations of the Athlon 3800+. The one prior to the die size shrink could be an overclockers delight while the other one was a real pain to get it to do anything.