Games randomly crash on my Ryzen PC

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Hey,

I just put together a new PC and when I started to play on it, games randomly crashed. Some games that require less performance will just kinda glitch out or freeze but more demanding games just straight up crash. I have done a lot of troubleshooting and before I say what I think the problems might be I just want to say that the PC is completly clean from dust, I have NO Overclock on it, ALL drivers are as up to date as they can be including BIOS, I have reinstalled Windows 10 two times and all the computers pieces are brand new except the SSD and the HDD. I ran memtest and also prime95 for some time and no errors. There is a chance that RAM is incompatible but there is no way it can't run even on 2133 Mhz. I originally thought it might be the PSU's fault and I got a new one but it still crashes. It can't be the GPU because it ran perfectly fine in my last PC. So right now I'm thinking that my CPU is just faulty from the factory. But I really do not want to go through the trouble of sending it back. So if you have ANY suggestions, PLEASE tell me.


Specs:

GPU: Gigabyte GTX 1050 TI OC 4Gb GDDR5
CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 1200
MB: Msi B350 Tomahawk
RAM: Corsair Vengance 8GB 3000Mhz DDR4 Dual channel
PSU: Corsair CX Series 450W 80+Bronze
SSD: Kingston 120GB
HDD: 2TB

If someone could help me out it would be greatly appriciated
 
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I think it might've been a bad GPU driver. I deleted the GPU drivers completly and installed a little bit of an older driver that I DEFINITELY knew worked and that seemed to fix it. I will update in a few days and see if the problem comes back.

Second that. Also, see if there are any bios upgrades available for the board. Other thing, I think there's an AMD ryzen power plan you can download so you may want to do that also

Another tip, if you have 2 sticks of ram, run memtest on 1 stick at a time. I've seen ram test ok with all sticks in there, but then when you test one at a time, errors may appear on one of them.
 
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Do you think that any programs or windows 10 could cause that even tho it's a fresh install and I'll try the memtest on one stick at a time. Thanks for suggestions!
 
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Shouldn't updating the BIOS version fix it tho?
 
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I think it might've been a bad GPU driver. I deleted the GPU drivers completly and installed a little bit of an older driver that I DEFINITELY knew worked and that seemed to fix it. I will update in a few days and see if the problem comes back.

 
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