Major framerate loss when playing games I should be able to run easily - GPU will 'disconnect' and reconnect again.

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TriflingGnome_4

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Recently I have been having a problem with my PC and I'm certain it is down to the GPU. When playing games I sometimes receive a large fps drop (e.g. earlier I was playing Red Orchestra 2, had a fairly solid 60fps, went down to the 10 - 20 fps region) followed by my monitor losing connection to my PC's output but reconnects again (on rare occasions it will reset my PC) and my fps will be fixed again. I had a look at my msi afterburner stats for the past 10 minutes or whatever the time span is on afterburner and I noticed some things that seem odd. One is that my GPU will always spike in power before this mini crash occurs, here are a few examples:
http://imgur.com/x9K7T0L http://imgur.com/OhZ60Lx

Furthermore I had a look at all of the different things that afterburner will monitor and noticed that my pagefile usage was going above the 'maximum' value that afterburner has set for the monitor, although I don't have an image of the spike I have an image of the maximum: http://imgur.com/ssy2Tlq

I don't know if this data will help at all and if anyone can give me a solution (I tried to get proof for this and explore all solutions because my last thread wasn't replied to :( )

PC information (sorry its limited, this was a pre-built I got before I gained the confidence to build my own):

CPU - AMD FX 6300 - 3.5GHz 6 cores
RAM: 8GB Kingston (unknown model)
GPU: http://imgur.com/UKtLqZV
HDD: 1TB Toshiba DT01ACA100
3 Peripherals: Razer Blackwidow Ultimate Stealth, Razer Naga 2014 and Razer Carcharias (Please no Razer fanboy comments, bought them a while a go)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3

P.S. I had a look at some other solutions and one was mentioning the pagefile thing, my pagefile.sys is set to 1.88 GB, I don't entirely understand how that works so if that needs increasing do let me know :)

Edit 1: Fixed links
 
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TriflingGnome_4

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Thank you, ill have to see what I can do about that. I still have my warranty so I can send it back for repairs and mention the PSU. Do you have any advice for the pagefile thing I mentioned in the P.S.?
 
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A page file is basically the same as RAM, only it is on your HDD, so it is very slow.
System reserved memory basically, just like RAM.

1.88GB is probably good for you, you don't have that much ram. If you had 16GB i'd say turn it to 0, but it probably provides you an increase in performance.
 
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greens

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OH, they aren't going to do anything about it. They shipped it knowing it was a terrible PSU, they expected this. It isn't that it is broken, or in need of repair - it just is straight up bad.

Your best bet is to just purchase a good PSU yourself.
 
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bloodroses

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No page file at all would be bad. Some programs (as well as Windows itself) gets quite unstable without a page file. Very small works well though. :)
 
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greens

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Yeah i don't even know if it lets you set it to 0, throws errors and windows will just create the page file behind your back. Minor details :p
 
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