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Is my CPU dying?

Kasai Dragon
By Kasai Dragon
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Hey, I've had a I5 4690k for about 5 years and have done some heavy overclocking. I am starting to worry that it could be dying and plan to get a much nicer CPU anyways.

A lot of my friends have been giving me mixed answers from the cpu dying, to my SSD or Hard drive dying and i'm wondering which it could be (Keep in mind the hard drive and SSD are as old as the CPU and so is the motherboard which already has broken 1 and 2 ram slots so my ram is running on 3 and 4 only which kills its speed. 

 

The problem i've been having for a little while now, is while playing my games at a stable and lower clock speed due to my paranoia, i've been experiancing frequent windows blue screen crashes (The ones that start with the little : ( frown face) I've been getting them at least once every 30 minutes, a few times after rebooting, i'd get this crash as soon as 2 minutes after while booting programs. I am planning to upgrade to an I7 8700K during cyber monday anyways, requiring the new motherboard and ram that are required for the new chipset motherboard. What I want to figure out is if its a CPU or HDD/SSD issue, cause if its an HDD/SSD problem then i need to know so i can get them on sale cyber monday as well. \

My motherboard is a MSI Z97 gaming 5, and i'm running just your standard hard drive, model shouldnt matter too much i don't think and an PNY 120GB Sata SSD

Thanks! -Kasai

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What are the errors you're getting on the bluescreens? It should give you an error code that we can use to help you figure out what the problem is.

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Use crystaldiskinfo to check your drive's status.

The quickest way to make sure it's not a software issue is to clean install windows.

If a clean install doesn't fix it then you've almost certainly got some problems with your hardware.

I would doubt that your CPU is dying, those last a very long time.

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1 minute ago, Stefan Payne said:

What are the specs of your PC?
PSU? Age? Maker? Model?

I'm running an ASUS Strix 1080, The cpu as mentioned, the SSD and HDD's as mentioned, the motherboard as mentioned. I don't know what my PSU is but its as old as everything else, the only new things in this pc were the 1080. I'm running 16gb of Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB (2x8GB) 1866MHz (PC3-14900) C10 for DDR3 Systems (CMY16GX3M2A1866C10R) 

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4 minutes ago, Kasai Dragon said:

I don't know what my PSU is but its as old as everything else,

Could you remove the side panel and take a look at the Label? And if you don't know, just post a Picture of the Label.


Could you try this Software:

https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskinfo/

And look at the Status of your Disks?

 

 

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39 minutes ago, Enderman said:

Use crystaldiskinfo to check your drive's status.

The quickest way to make sure it's not a software issue is to clean install windows.

If a clean install doesn't fix it then you've almost certainly got some problems with your hardware.

I would doubt that your CPU is dying, those last a very long time.

I used the program, says good on both and 100% even if i ran this cpu mostly at 4.5 to 5.5GHZ?

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10 minutes ago, Kasai Dragon said:

I used the program, says good on both and 100% even if i ran this cpu mostly at 4.5 to 5.5GHZ?

Frequency isn't really what matters, the temps and voltage are.

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