Is my 2500k on its last legs?

[red eye]

So with my i5 2500k 4.5 @ 1.2xv with -.500 or .05 offset. I’m getting watchdog blue screens every once in a while usually when just idling or running kodi. Google says it’s to do with my overclock so I set it to auto which brings it up to 1.352v.
I think this is a little high iirc max v is 1.350v anyway starting from -.06 I have worked down to -.010v and it’s done 20 rounds of ibt without issue at 1.272v.

I recall that oc’ing reduces the life of the cpu, this is my second pc and first go at building and oc.

So is this my cpu about to die? Just want a heads up as my 9 290 is starting to struggle so it’s buy a gpu now and end up with a dead cpu or buy new cpu and live with console graphics until I have the money for a new gpu

 

[red eye]

Will do memtest, I repasted a while back when I stripped and cleaned my loop last summer I think.

It doesn’t happen when I’m playing games, I can game all day without issue. It’s just randomly when I leave it on all night running kodi, trouble is it’s random and I have had cpu v at 1.352 and it’s not happened since. Voltage is now 1.272 so I’ll see how it goes.

I haven’t oc’d the memory as I had to reduce v as it was using way over Sandy’s safe limit for memory, but I’ll definitely do memtest.
Like to see how razen 3 performs and upgrade, I should get a few FPS on top of the cpu by switching to pci 3

Thanks for the replys

 

[red eye]

Moar volts!

I was going to give it loads more volts and get it running 5ghz a final send off.
Looks like it’s dying a slow death so I might not bother

 

[red eye]

Whea uncorrectable error. I played an hr and a bit of new dwan closed game and left on kodi for 2 hrs, just came up to check up on the pc and I have blue screen. I’ll run memtest before adjusting frequency.

 

[red eye]

Ah I need a usb thingy, where did I put my spare usb thingy

 

[red eye]

So it benches/games fine and only crashes in one specific program (Kodi), assuming it’s passes a memtest, perhaps investigate the software issue rather than assuming it’s a hardware issue just because someone, somewhere had a problem that’s similar and said it was overclock related.

Not just kodi on desktop aswell, kodi buzzes when it crashes but not desktop I get watchdog and uncorectable blue screens. Memtest shows 0 errors.