Downclock I5-2500k to make it stable

[Johnny Who]

A couple months ago my PC started crashing and BSOD. Every time the PC restarted the bios message was that the 3.7ghz clock caused the crashed which is the auto-boost clock as the CPU is not overclocked. I turned off auto-boost and the system has been stable the last month or so. Now someone told me i should increase the voltage to get the CPU to run normally again because he believes it's a simply age/degradation issue and the CPU simply needing more Volt to run stable.

 

Another cause for the crashed could perhaps have been my memory. I noticed my memory profile was running XMP profile which i am not sure my RAM even support so i also turned that off at same time as disabled the CPU boost feature. https://www.kingston.com/datasheets/khx1600c9d3k2_8g.pdf  < My ram

 

I have also run the IntelProcDiag tool and the windows memory test and both CPU and RAM passed without any issues.

 

[narrdarr]

before doing all that

just try resetting bios to optimal default settings then re-apply xmp setting.

[Pcexbird]

1 hour ago, narrdarr said:

before doing all that

just try resetting bios to optimal default settings then re-apply xmp setting.

Agreed reset bios don't downclock

[Johnny Who]

Just to make it clear as i worded it wrong. I have not downclocked the CPU what i did was turn off the turbo-boost function meaning the CPU stays at 3.3ghz.