Issue with overclock or hardware?

[robwigan]

I attempted my first over clock on my old gaming rig at the weekend.

i5467k with a raijintek dual fan cooler (barely fits in the case the fans are that big)
on an old z97 d3h gigabyte MB

After a few hours of playing around and resetting my cosmos I found it stable at 4.3 with a set voltage of 1.3 ran prime 95 for well over an hour and a half with 0 issues.

Turned on today and the bus speed was bouncing from around 22hz to 99hz and the clock speeds on all 4 cores where doing the same.

I have just set gone in to bios and dropped the over clock to 4.2 and all now seems fine, is this a sign of failing hardware given its age?

After dropping the clock speeds to 4.2 the bus is firmly set at 99.98hz and the clocks are all now stable

 

[EsaT]

That's certainly starting be older hardware and something could be tiring.
As long shot could try changing "BIOS" battery, though don't think lowering clocks would help to symptoms caused by that.

 

[robwigan]

That's certainly starting be older hardware and something could be tiring.
As long shot could try changing "BIOS" battery, though don't think lowering clocks would help to symptoms caused by that.

I have lowered the over clock and its stable.now, is it worth taking the overclock off until I get a new system ?

after lowering I ran prime 95 with no issues and played csgo bone stop for a few hours (I know this is a very un taxing game)