Having trouble playing games on my new PC

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I recently bought a custom made PC and have only been using it for a good four days and it has run smoothly until now, after I did a windows update games are very laggy and will have black squares appearing on the screen. I have an integrated AMD Radeon HD 8370D graphics card installed on it and I can't seem the nail down the source of the issue, I'm not much of a PC expert so the voice of experience would be very helpful and appreciated.
 
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You should be able to run pretty much anything on source engine (HL2 TF2 CS:Souce... I have one of those chips laying around. If your getting artifacts make sure your ram is stable and that your GPU clock is stock. Also when I got mine it had its TDP set to 35w by default, It needs 65w...
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Processor Type: AMD A4-7300
Processor Speed: 4.0 GHz
Memory: 16GB DDR3
HDD Capacity: 2TB
AMD Radeon HD 8370D
AMD FM2A88M Pro3+ ATX Motherboard
Windows 10 64 bit
 
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What type of games are you playing? The two most important things to PC gaming are your CPU and GPU. Both of yours are pretty weak. It's great to have a 2TB hard drive and 16GB of RAM, but if you are playing high end games you're going to need a few upgrades.
 
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DJQuik

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No matter what game I open there's a lot of lag and particularly on valve games like Half Life 2 and Team Fortress 2 black boxes will appear on the main menu, games that had run very smoothly before. At first I assumed it was an issue with Steam but I had tried to play Kerbal Space Program and the menu was very laggy and unplayable.
 
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You should be able to run pretty much anything on source engine (HL2 TF2 CS:Souce... I have one of those chips laying around. If your getting artifacts make sure your ram is stable and that your GPU clock is stock. Also when I got mine it had its TDP set to 35w by default, It needs 65w...
 
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