I'm not sure whats wrong with my PC?

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Hey guys. I'm gonna be fairly honest here and say I haven't got a clue what's wrong with my PC right now. I'll post my current specs below, clearly it' is/was a bit outdated, for a while I used Radeon HD 5570, so games like H1Z1, GTA etc ran very low FPS, so I installed the Sapphire R9 280x 3GB OC version and a new PCU (750). This seemed to solve my problems, GTA, H1Z1, CSGO all ran smooth as fuck. That was about 3 months ago. Then, I would be playing GTA, getting 30-50 FPS with no problems at all, when out of nowhere the game would just crash, same with any other game. A couple of weeks ago, my computer randomly crashed out on me, forcing me to do a windows reformat. I wasn't too bothered because I had already done one a few months prior to that so had most of my stuff backed up anyway, and figured a reformat might help anyway, but it didn't. Now, I can't play GTA V longer than 5 mins without crashing, even CSGO, a notoriously easy game to run has issues for me, if I don't restart my PC before I play a Competitive match, I will get this awful stutter lag and drop constantly from 100-20 fps. A friend of mine thinks it could be a hard drive error, so I downloaded a hard drive test from a link he sent me, but it said there was nothing wrong with my hard drive. So my assumption is it's my graphics card? Even though it was only installed three months ago? Sometimes my entire PC freezes up when just watching videos or stuff on Youtube,Facebook etc. Would my graphics card cause that?This is really bugging me. So if anyone might have suggestions, it would be great. I was also wondering if by upgrading my graphics card, and my ram to 16gb, would it make a huge difference, given the rest of my specs aren't exactly the best.

Current specs:
Motherboard:MS-7613 (Iona-GL8E)
Processor: Intel Core i5 650 - 3.20 ghz
RAM- 6GB
Soundcard: Integrated Realtek ALC888S Audio
Power supply: Corsair CX750
Graphics card: AMD Radeon R9 280X 3GB Overclock edition
Hard drive: Figure 7 1.5 TB Hard drive

If there's anything I'm forgetting, let me know and I'll add it. Also if I'm posting this in the wrong section, let me know and I'll change it, and sorry if I did so. Please help!
 
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The hard drive would be something to check on also, should be pretty easy to find a spare to test with. Thing that makes the drive less possible of an issue is that you were able to format it and install Windows and your games on it with no issues. A bad hard drive you would be likely to hit an issue while doing that that.
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Test the system with one RAM stick at a time and/or another set of RAM sticks.
If anything is overclocked set it to stock speeds.
This may be a heat issue, make sure the case has good airflow and that the heatsinks/fans are clean. Re-doing the heatsinks with new heatgrease is a good idea also.

You can test the card in another computer, see if the issue follows the card.

It may be the power supply, if the card works find in another system, try another power supply in yours.
 
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Thanks for your suggestions hang-the-9, I don't have another computer to test, but I did switch graphic cards and the exact same problem happened with that one also. There's two fans, both clean, along with an additional two fans on the actual graphics card itself, so I don't think the airflow could be a problem either. I also tested the ram and didn't notice anything different. I've also never messed with overclocking.

I haven't tried a different PSU, I only just purchased my current one a few months so honestly I'm a little bit reluctant to spend another $100 on one if it isn't the solution. Is there anything else that might be causing this? A friend of mine is pretty convinced it's my harddrive, would that be possible?
 
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The hard drive would be something to check on also, should be pretty easy to find a spare to test with. Thing that makes the drive less possible of an issue is that you were able to format it and install Windows and your games on it with no issues. A bad hard drive you would be likely to hit an issue while doing that that.
 
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