6700K dying?

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I've been running a mild 4.4Ghz overclock with 1.32v since it came out but today I noticed a couple of application crashes so fired up Prime95 and got errors almost immediately where as when I got it was prime stable. I dropped everything back to stock in the bios but Prime again errors after a couple of minutes. I'm now scratching my head...

I'm running on a Gigabyte Gaming 7 Z170 board wth latest bios F22f.

Is the CPU on the way out?

 

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Looks like it was overheating even at stock, I re-seated the H110i with new thermal paste and now all is well. I didn't realise that was a thing that the contact ages?

Thanks for the posters above.

 

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U put dee fresh thermal paste, yes?

Yes cleaned off paste and re-applied fresh stuff.

 

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1.32v?

Isn't that a bit high for that overclcok? i'm running a 4690K @ 4.6Ghz with 1.27v.

Yeah it's not a great example, to get to 4.6 it needs 1.41v and hits thermal throttling in prime so not worth it.