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The end of my 2500k :(

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So I've had my 2500k for about 6 years and it' been great. A few months ago I was lacking a bit of umph so I went to a 4.8 overclock. Fully stress tested it and no bsod issues. The Last week or so I have been getting random bsods. I rempved the overclock bacl to default but it continued. Had one when I was clutching a win in pubg. Not ideal. And today is when it all went down the pan. I was demoing some rift games to the fam and just kept getting bsod aftr bsod which eventually resulted in a bsod loop. I'e managed to get it to boot by keeping the clock speed at the base speed but giving it a bit more voltage. But it still bsods after about a hour of prime95. I'v run the ram test and that came back fine. I guess it' time to upgrade. Hope there is a tempting boxing day sale for me !! 8700k yes please :)
 
pick up a 8700k move into the future.will last you just as long and youll be glad you done it.also wonder why you waited so long ;)
 
i've had to drop my overclock back on mine to 4.4 it's on its way out :( it's had a good life
 
Doogles said:
Nah mate we all know Intel will do 8c/16t Z390 this time next year wait it out one more year and get cheaper DDR4 too!
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probably be even dearer.prices just go up now. dont expect much of a change.difference wont be that much in games either.
 
I can't see DDR4 pricing dropping until 2019 when the factory being built comes on stream. There's a lot of demand for memory and it' s in manufacturers interests to keep pricing high.
 
MissChief said:
I can't see DDR4 pricing dropping until 2019 when the factory being built comes on stream. There's a lot of demand for memory and it' s in manufacturers interests to keep pricing high.
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They can keep prices high sure but at some point it will stop others from upgrading, if they keep the prices to high then people won't be upgrading to newer platforms because of the prices being too high.
 
Doogles said:
They can keep prices high sure but at some point it will stop others from upgrading, if they keep the prices to high then people won't be upgrading to newer platforms because of the prices being too high.
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True, but demand from businesses and mobiles will mean plants will be retooled to flash memory than DDR4.
 
Doogles said:
They can keep prices high sure but at some point it will stop others from upgrading, if they keep the prices to high then people won't be upgrading to newer platforms because of the prices being too high.
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PC enthusiasts represent a rather small part of the total demand for ddr4 which is being driven a lot by mobile phone sales. So a drop in consumer computer upgrades due to high memory prices is unlikely, on its own, to have much of an effect on global pricing for DDR4
 
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