Is my CPU damaged?

[Dave3000]

I recently been checking the Event Viewer in Windows 7 under Administrative Events and I'm getting hundreds of errors. Mainly the source for them is LoadPerf, WMI, Kernel-Event Tracing. Total events listed in Administrative View is 2401. I've overclocked my 3930k chip alot in the past for benchmarking mainly and not 24/7. One time I left the CPU voltage on Auto while overclocking to 4.5GHz and in CPU-z it showed 1.426V, much higher that the reported VID in Coretemp, while running Intel Burn Test, temps went into the 80's within a few seconds, and I immediately quit the program and went back in to the BIOS to change to the settings back to stock. I also overclocked to 4.2GHz in the past.

Also in Need for Speed: The Run, in the Cleveland stages, the game would frequently freeze on my but I still could Alt-F4 to the desktop. In Assassin's Creed III, once in a while the game would start to artifact on me (black flashing triangles) and then freeze, and again I could still Alt-F4 to the desktop. It's the only game that artifacts on me once in a while. Other games and benchmarks don't artifact on me.

Are these just bugs in these games or is my CPU damaged from overclocking I did in the past. Are the errors I mentioned in Event Viewer mean my CPU has been damaged and is not longer stable even at stock settings?

I also want to mention that I set my page file to a fixed size of 4GB after I installed Windows a few months ago, just in case this could be the problem with the freezing.

i7 3930k
16GB DDR3-1600 Corsair Vengeance
EVGA GTX 680 4GB
Samsung 840 Pro 512GB SSD

 

[Dave3000]

I don't think my CPU is overheating at stock settings which I'm running at right now. During a maximum stress test of Intel Burn Test, temps reach 66c on the hottest core at stock settings. I was playing those games I mentioned at stock CPU settings and Intel Burn Test most likely runs the CPU hotter than these games.

 

[tarmc]

run memtest and see if that's a possible fail point, also artifacting would lead me to wonder if its a problem with the video card opposed to cpu

 

[Dave3000]

run memtest and see if that's a possible fail point, also artifacting would lead me to wonder if its a problem with the video card opposed to cpu

Well I just ran Memtest 86+ for 4.5 hours and no errors, so it's most likely not the memory that's causing those errors in Event Viewer and the crashing in those 2 games. Also a few days ago I ran Intel Burn Test maximum test for a little over 100 minutes and it completed without errors at stock settings. As for the artifacts and crashing I experienced in Assassin's Creed III, it could be my video card as someone here pointed out. Maybe I'll run OC Scanner on my video card to check for artifacting to make sure nothing is wrong with my video card. Just because one game artifacts then crashes on my PC doesn't mean it's the video card, it could be the game or video drivers.

 

[Dave3000]

I just ran OC Scanner X for 30 minutes in the Extreme setting. No artifacting or crashing. Mostly likely nothing is wrong with my video card as no other games besides Assassin's Creed III or benchmarks artifact on my system and OC Scanner on the extreme setting is most likely more stressful on the video card than gaming.

 

[tarmc]

possible driver issue?

 

[SlickR12345]

Its your software, you probably have a mess on ur hands. Best to reformat and reinstall windows.