CyberPower $1200 PC Underperforming And AMD Wattman Crashing Need Help

[BigHaas99]

So this has been happening since 3 weeks after I got it. I was able to play Battlefront, War Thunder, and a few other games no problem. All ran amazingly with very high fps. Then after that 3 weeks Battlefront began crashing with a Direct X error more and more frequently. The other games would run solid for maybe 10-20 minutes and then the screen would go black and come back with potato textures and graphics. This happened right after I downloaded some driver updates. I was told by tech support it looked like a bad graphics card. I sent it in and got a new one and the same problems are still there even after a driver update.

The PC specs are as follows:

Case: BLACK INWIN 303 MID TOWER ATX TEMPERED GLASS ORANGE

Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-970-GAMING SLI W/INTEL GBLAN CROSSFIRE AM

Power Supply: 800 WATT 80 PLUS POWER SUPPLY

CPU: OEM AMD FX-4350 VISHERA QUAD-CORE 4.2GHZ AM3+ 125W

Ram: ADATA 8GB DDR3-2133 XPG V3 X2

GPU: POWERCOLOR RX 470 4GB GDDR5 PCI-E 3.0

I think its the graphics card but i have no idea. I'm not the most knowledgeable on PC's because I switched from console so all of this is sorta new to me. I really have no idea what is causing the underperformance.

 

[BigHaas99]

I took the PC to a local tech support store and they said that my 2TB Toshiba HDD might be part of the issue and they also said that the sudden drops could be a problem with my RAM but what do you guys think?

 

[Aeacus]

Your system HDD can be part of the reason only when the drive has become corrupt with bad sectors. Any data that is written at those bad sectors won't read nor work properly.

Though, it is possible that your PC doesn't like to work well with Radeon GPUs. To test this, borrow (or buy) Nvidia GPU, e.g GTX 970 or GTX 1060 3GB.