Thank you ebony!

I couldnt find the setting you referred to in the UD3's bios setting, as there was nothing about power saving mode in the bios, but I did change my power profile under win 7, and set the "processor power management" minimum from 5% to 100%.

Now I just need to leave the computer on for a few hours and see if I can keep my overclock'ed setting. Thank you for the tip once again ebony!