6700K Possibly Failing

Renato2005

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Hi Guys,

This is kind of a repost since I've opened weeks ago the following topic under OS forum.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-3280266/clock-watchdog-timeout-blue-screen-death.html

Last week, after a big troubleshooting, all of sudden my pc became stable again... until today.

I don't really know what else I can test or try... and since those issues (BSODs and freezes, sometimes even on bios) stopped happening for some time and then come back again, i'm not confident that a test where I would switch my components individually (another cpu, another mobo, another ram) would give me the correct answer.

Right now, I'm posting from the problematic PC, using the 1 core option on BIOS. If I try to boot with all cores enabled, the problems start again.

Please, i do need some help here. I want to make sure which component is the faulty one (though I do really believe that it's the CPU.

I'll really appreciate if you guys could lend me a hand here... this is proving to be too hard alone... :(

My PC setup:
i7 6700k @4.0Ghz
4x8GB Gskill Ripjaws V @3.0Ghz
Asrock Gaming K6
Corsair RM1000
Gigabyte GTX970
Kingston SSD 60GB
Kingston SSD 120GB
Seagate HD 1TB

 

Samaratin

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Renato2005

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Just to update the topic, and finally end it:

It really was a faulty CPU. I've done Intel RMA process and everything went fine - they do deserve some congratulations because it was one of the few times I've noticed that the company was really caring about it's customer.

New CPU arrived, PC is working fine.