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You can try rebooting in safe mode, see if the behavior persists, I fear that the update may be the real culprit, try updating it again, if it's already updated, you can use recovery point to restore or 'refresh' it. If that does not help, you can try reinstalling windows or a different version...

If you will be patient for a while, Nvidia is going to launch GPU with Pascal architecture anytime soon, and it's worth waiting for. Or at least prices of Nvidia GPUs will be slashed. Can't say same about Asus, yes, 390x is a beast, but should you need it for 1080p? I would recommend waiting for...

Can you report the processes which use the CPU and HDD? Programs like steam are known to consume heavy processing power in background.

Apart from checking all obvious things ( Windows updates, GPU drivers, Task manager) you can check if your GPU is overclocked or overheated. The same problem presented itself to me on a GTX 760 when I was trying to overclock it. Another time it was a HDD error, check into those and let me know.

What's the resolution you're playing at? Can you post your Specs and In-game graphics settings? Is the game updated to latest patch?

Can you be more specific, which games you tried? You can try a benchmark like 3dMark or Unigine to make sure the GPU is being utilized, what about the GPU itself? Any noices? Also try running Games on Windows 7/8. Tell me if this helps.

GT 720 is just not cut out for modern AAA titles, even if your CPU support these games, the GPU bottlenecks it. You can do light gaming with slightly older gen, for anything better, you'll need a GPU upgrade. I can recommende some.

Put the card in a card reader, connect it to PC and see if it's working fine. You can try full formatting from there in a desired format. If other phones show the same problem, then most likely you'll have to replace it. Good Luck.

Most likely the game itself needs an update or you can optimize it from GEForce Experience, at last delete the game seeings from - My documents\Rockstar Games\GTA V\Settings.XML ( or similar?). So the game launcher will create a new one. You can also check the behavior of GTAV.exe to check if...

I dropped my WD Elements 2TB External HD from about 1meter :( When I plugged it into a laptop, it is accessible and readable to a degree, but sometimes takes so much time that it is almost nonfunctional. There's no weird sound coming from inside, just regular spinning and vibration that was...

Try a different game and use MSI Afterburner to view fps, as r9 280 is certainly better than HD 7850

Your Processor will surely bottleneck GTX 760 drastically, at least get a haswell i3 which can allow you 4 cores with hyper threading. Or it's better to wait a bit and get GTX 960 at same price either way there is no point in getting 760 with core 2 Duo.

My Specs Are - Intel i5-4570 @ 3.2 GHz Asus B85-MG Mono Asus GTX 760 Corsair Vengeance 1x8 GB @ 1600 MHz Seagate 2TB Barracuda @7200 rpm Corsair CX 500 My Motherboard contains UEFI Bios, which is not a bit old but an advanced Bios. Windows DVD is intact. I had the system running for an year...

Recommended PSU rating for a 770 is minimum 550W, Upgrade your PSU as your GPU is demanding more power than your PSU can muster!

I can't even boot to Windows 8.1 by any possible method, so no point in using whocrashed. I checked my HDD with Hard Disk Sentinel which displays 100% health. I even replaced my HDD but the problem persists, only way to get through it is to reinstalll windows once a week :( which is not remotely...