Posting simply to correct my posting above, which is wrong.  I have been working on an acoustic guitar/vocals piece when my AMD Phenom II 945 ran out of gas, and even with freezing stuff, still had pops that were beyond annoying.  So I set out to purchase the new FX8300 8 core and stick in my board, but the only place you can buy them right now is out of S Korea on Ebay.  So, given that I'm kind of stuck, I overclocked from 3000 to 3600 and bumped the DRAM speed up from 666 to 800 with the same DRAM timings.  Clicks and pops are gone, and everything runs smooth.