PC newbie needs serious help/advice

TheHighGUy

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Me and a friend built me a pc about 7 months back and he was the one who built it and knew what he was doing but we dont get along anymore and i have nobody to ask for help fixing my problem... Thats where you guys come in hopefully :) So my problem is this, my pc has run all the games ive played almost perfectly since i got it, Ark:survival evolved, battlefield 4, Bo3, cs:go and more, but in the last few weeks every game i play starts up fine and plays well on high graphics for about ten mins then randomly the fps drops massively until the game finally crashes... my GPU is GeForce GTX 960 and CPU is AMD FX -6300 six core processor and ive got 16gb of ram. Like i said i know next to nothing about Pcs so any help would be much appreciated :) Cheers!
 

Faux_Grey

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Did you update drivers recently?

What are your temperatures of the graphics card and CPU? (GPU-z and Coretemp)
What power supply is inside your computer?

If it's happening consistently after 10 minutes or so it sounds like an overheating problem.
 

TheHighGUy

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Thanks for answering, I belive all my drivers are updated, the nvidia geforce experience says there are no updates, if there is another way to update drivers im unaware of it hehe. My CPU is 37ºC and my Graphics card is at 45ºC but will go up to 50+ºC after ten mins if i play a game like battlefield, and my power supply is 650w. Since my original question i have opened up my PC and given it a clean the best i could, i took the graphics card and the power supply out and cleaned most of the dust away from the fans and i have the side of my case open with a fan pointing at it and its made no difference from what i can tell... i just tried to play the battlefield 1 beta and the same thing happened, the game starts fine i play for ten mins then the fps drop like crazy and the game crashes... There is one more fan inside my pc i have not cleaned yet because i need a tool i dont have to get to it... so as soon as i can i will clean it aswell but i cant see that being the problem :( if you can think of anything else that might help me let me know, or if you need to know anything about my PC and its components or its setup feel free to ask :) lets hope its a easy fix... i just want to play batllefield1 while i can :,( lol P.s i live in a warm country and the room temperature is normaly between 25-30ºC, its humid aswell but i dont know if that matters or not :p Cheers! P.s.s The graphics card is a Gigabyte GeForce GTX 960 G1 Gaming 4GB VRAM edition!
 

TheHighGUy

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Operating System
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU
AMD FX-6300 38 °C
Vishera 32nm Technology
RAM
16,0GB Single-Channel DDR3 @ 803MHz (10-10-10-30)
Motherboard
Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. 970A-DS3P (CPU 1) 33 °C
Graphics
SAMSUNG (1920x1080@60Hz)
4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 (Gigabyte) 45 °C
Storage
931GB Seagate ST1000DM003-1SB10C ATA Device (SATA) 32 °C
232GB Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB (SSD) 38 °C
Optical Drives
ASUS DRW-24F1MT
Audio
NVIDIA High Definition Audio



This is all the info i could gather :) i hope it helps!