Diagnosing my Dying Computer

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Alex411

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So recently when playing in any games ranging from low resource E Sports titles to playing high resource games my computer starts freezing in the middle of me playing, sometime crashing the game and sometimes coming back. I've also experienced a number of these games I'm playing now running at a significantly lower FPS and I don't know what's causing it. So thanks in advance for helping me with my issue!

My Specs:
CPU: i5-6500
GPU: AMD R9 380
RAM: 16Gbs of HyperX ram?
MOBO: Gigabyte H110M-A-CF
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1TB, Toshiba 750Gb (Old from a laptop)
SSD: SanDisk 250Gb (Boot Drive)
PSU: 500W Fractal Design Gold
OS: Windows 10
I can try my best to supply any extra info
 
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Yes, it has to do with the GPU. That is usually fixed by installing new or old stable drivers.
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boosted1g

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Have you installed the latest AMD drivers for your card?

The FD PSUs are not terrible but not in the great category either. If it is a few years old then the capacitors may have aged enough to not be able to output quite enough power anymore. I would still try putting a replacement PSU in there, if you cant borrow from anyone then perhaps you can buy/return one form local store.
 
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Alex411

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Yeah I installed the latest drivers yesterday and still no help so I know rolling back a driver won't help and I can try to borrow a PSU but idk how long that will take and I think i've had this PSU for around at least 2 years this December will be 3. Plus if it's not the PSU I'm guessing it's the GPU? Oh and I already run MSI AfterBurner and the CPU or GPU doesn't seem to be overheating or running highly.
 
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lakimens

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That is your problem, if it isn't overheating (under 100C), I suggest doing a stress test, like Prime95 and see what happens.
 
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Alex411

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So after running Prime95 for 3 hours on Blend without any failures I'm kinda at a loss for what could be the issue, it's highest temperature was only 74 degrees Celsius so I know that's not bad. Any more suggestions?
 
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Alex411

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So I just ran two E Sport Titles on my SSD, they seemed to run pretty fine. I guess I'll try and check my HDD for errors and stuff.

Just scanned my HDD with the windows drive checker, came clean with no errors.
 
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Alex411

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Well for the most part that HDD is empty and i run most my games on the 1tb Seagate. But this is the wierd thing, I played games all day destiny 2 beta and overwatch and everything ran well until just a few moments my pc started randomly crashing a lot and required a hard restart by flicking the psu switch on the back. The scariest one was when I had just restarted my pc and after logging in it just froze, like it didn't have enough power to post 100%. Also while able to play overwatch after a recoverable crash I got an error saying that my rendering device had been lost, in which I'm assuming means that it's something to do with my gpu.
 
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lakimens

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Yes, it has to do with the GPU. That is usually fixed by installing new or old stable drivers.
 
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