That sounds like bad memory to me.
Why wouldn't you just use a proper Chipset fan and take a tap off your power supply for it?I finally decided to buy a little fan and power cable (soldered them together) and glued the fan onto the heatsink of the chip.
It still locks up every once in a while, but not quite as often as before.
Now I have a frankenstein machine with a loud fan...
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