Processor suddenly became unstable after a month of stability. Bad sign?

Justfortrolls · Jun 13, 2015

My processor has been sitting at 4.5 Ghz for a month now, and I've never had a problem and it passed all stress tests. Yesterday my games started freezing up and i restarted the Pc to find the "overclock failed" message, despite having changed no settings. I bumped it down to 4.2 and it seems okay for now. Does this mean my CPU degraded that much in 1 month? It's a 5930k and is cooled by the Swifttech H-240x.

RAZER Gamer · Jun 13, 2015

This could well be a bad sign yes. It could have been overheating at 4.5Ghz or there could be another problem. Please can you tell me your idle and load temps.

DeathRabit · Jun 13, 2015

What voltages you are using ?

sizzling · Jun 13, 2015

What PSU? Could also be a dying PSU.

RAZER Gamer · Jun 13, 2015

Yes it could be a load of problems, we need to know the facts and figure out what the problem is.

Justfortrolls · Jun 13, 2015

RAZER Gamer :

Idle is sitting at around 30 C, and 100% load is 60 C. This is at 4.2 and 1.27 V. Psu is the Corsair RM 1000.

RAZER Gamer · Jun 13, 2015

Justfortrolls :

So you temperatures are good, your voltage seems ok and your PSU is big enough and a good PSU too. Ok it looks like it's going to be harder to solve than I thought.

Justfortrolls · Jun 13, 2015

RAZER Gamer :

Justfortrolls :

So you temperatures are good, your voltage seems ok and your PSU is big enough and a good PSU too. Ok it looks like it's going to be harder to solve than I thought.

My thoughts exactly. I have no idea what could have happened.

legion_of_cheese · Jun 13, 2015

Could it be a motherboard problem?

Justfortrolls · Jun 13, 2015

legion_of_cheese :

My motherboard has been unusually hot lately (47 C at idle).

RAZER Gamer · Jun 13, 2015

Yes 47 degrees sounds very bad! My motherboard the Asus Z97 Pro Gamer idles at 20 degree and stays at 20-25 degrees all the time.

DeathRabit · Jun 13, 2015

Mobo , and rams models.

RAZER Gamer · Jun 13, 2015

It sounds like a RAM or mobo issue then. 47 degrees is way too high for the mobo. It should be under 30!

Justfortrolls · Jun 13, 2015

DeathRabit :

Rampage V Extreme, 16gb Corsair Vengeance 2400Mhz

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