New CPU causing freezes

detcordkey

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Jun 26, 2016
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So I am pretty new to the PC community and built my first computer from scratch last summer. I went with a mid-high range CPU and Graphics card thinking that when money rolled in I would upgrade those first.
My Build: GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3 AM3+ Motherboard
CORSAIR Vengeance 16GB (2 x 8GB)
EVGA GeForce GTX 960
AMD 6350 6 core 3.9 GHz
EVGA Supernova 850W
TOSHIBA PH3400U-1I72 4TB 7200 RPM 128MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Desktop Internal Hard Drive

I had some excess money this summer, and I figured I would buy a new processor, while on most games everything runs super smooth and awesome, Total War takes everything out of my comp pretty fast and I drop below 20 fps on the larger battles. I was told that this was a processor issue instead of a graphics card issue, hence my decision to upgrade my processor first. I went with the AMD 9590, I also got a new CPU cooling fan for it the Corsair H90.
After the installation it went perfectly for roughly an hour. My computer froze. My friend suggested it was a RAM issue, to which I unplugged and replugged my RAM, this worked for about 6 hours, and then froze again. This made me think that the Ram wasn't the issue.
All the while I was testing I was noticing that my graphics card was getting rather hot and when I had my case open, I accidentally bumped my Graphics card. This instantly froze the computer in the exact same method. I figured my Graphics card had to be lose, I unplugged and replugged it in and it solved it for a few more hours, but it still froze in the end.

I'm really starting to be at a loss, I've checked just about everywhere to compare compatibility, to which everthing is compatible, supposedly. I've taken everything apart and rebuilt it. I've made sure all of my connections are good. I've made sure that everything is updated. I even after the second time of changing things around noticed that i still had my old processor drivers hidden in device manager, which i thought deleting would solve. After about two more freezes I'm officially done. Any help or suggestions at all would be appreciated.

I forgot to mention that freezing isn't just happening while the computer is under stress, I will sometime be idling and it will freeze on me.
 

detcordkey

Commendable
Jun 26, 2016
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1,510
ok, I went ahead with the @BIOS tool from the Gigabyte website. installed it from online, and it worked perfectly. My updated system information shows that the BIOS is now F3. I think this is good now, thanks for all the help.