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I bought a 4690k about 7 months ago and was able to overclock it to 4.5GHz at 1.31v. Never has it gone above 65C and I run overclocked from when I wake up till I sleep, but now after an hour or so of gaming, my computer bluescreens. I have a program that logs CPU activity and I've noticed that every time this problem arises, CPU load shoots to 100% and the temp rises with it. Is this the the degrading chip that I hear so much about caused by overclocking or is it another problem?

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3 minutes ago, themapler300 said:

I bought a 4690k about 7 months ago and was able to overclock it to 4.5GHz at 1.31v. Never has it gone above 65C and I run overclocked from when I wake up till I sleep, but now after an hour or so of gaming, my computer bluescreens. I have a program that logs CPU activity and I've noticed that every time this problem arises, CPU load shoots to 100% and the temp rises with it. Is this the the degrading chip that I hear so much about caused by overclocking or is it another problem?

You have OS problems.

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Hardware degradation isn't  thing. Linus has a video on it.

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1 minute ago, bgibbz said:

Hardware degradation isn't  thing. Linus has a video on it.

Eh it is a possibility if the chip has bad thermal paste but the haswell refresh is fine, as are most cpus

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Just now, themapler300 said:

I upgraded from Windows 8.1

There is the problem, Windows 10 some time not work right and BSOD because IRQ and other error.

See event viewer to see issue, it will be red with error or warning and tell you. This is not CPU problem.

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8 minutes ago, AresKrieger said:

Eh it is a possibility if the chip has bad thermal paste but the haswell refresh is fine, as are most cpus

Potentially. 

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11 minutes ago, themapler300 said:

I bought a 4690k about 7 months ago and was able to overclock it to 4.5GHz at 1.31v. Never has it gone above 65C and I run overclocked from when I wake up till I sleep, but now after an hour or so of gaming, my computer bluescreens. I have a program that logs CPU activity and I've noticed that every time this problem arises, CPU load shoots to 100% and the temp rises with it. Is this the the degrading chip that I hear so much about caused by overclocking or is it another problem?

Most PC things are binary, they work or they don't :P But to the extent that degradation is present, we are talking of years of abuse, not a brand new CPU (we're talking less than a year here).

Was your OC stable with 1.31v? Could it be that you didn't test it too hard, but it's actually failing during games? Another possibility: can your PSU power your GPU and your overclocked CPU at full load? Most likely it can, but worth checking. Another one: is your motherboard happy delivering the 1.31v to all cores? If the VRMs get too hot or beyond their current rating they could trigger a shutdown too (won't bet on that either, though). Finally, it could be that your CPU, Motherboard, and PSU are perfectly capable of giving you the desired OC at that voltage without issues, but you need to tweak a power limit in the BIOS so that the overcurrent protection is not too trigger happy (since the power draw of your OCed CPU will exceed its stock rating, and your motherboard will assume that's a problem if you don't give it enough excess power draw tolerance).

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So today I checked that my PSU cables were plugged in correctly and thermal paste was fine. Then I go onto event viewer and the only pattern I see is

Critical     Kernel Power                 Event ID 41

Error         Event Log                       Event ID 6008

Warning   DNS Client Events        Event ID 1014

I have no idea what it means and still not sure whats causing the bsod.

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