This started awhile ago, my PC was accidentally dropped about nine months back, I've since replaced the case, the hard drive, and added additional cooling to the PC, it functions fine except when gaming, any game I play while playing freezes for up to 30 seconds and keeps doing this again every 10 mins to an hour as I game. I can list every game I've played while noticing this happen, but it's quite a few. The only games I don't seem to have an issue with are smaller/simpler ones, though some of those freeze as well. As I said, I fully replaced the hard drive and saved nothing, reinstalled everything fresh so I know this is a hardware issue but not sure which parts need replaced. It's both the video and audio that freeze which makes me question whether the GPU is the issue. Any ideas what part could be causing this if broken?
Thanks!
Edit: It's worth mentioning that it's more the PC freezing than just the game, I can't alt+tab during a freeze, nor can I ctrl+alt+dlt, I just have to wait it out to gain functionality back again.
Thanks!
Edit: It's worth mentioning that it's more the PC freezing than just the game, I can't alt+tab during a freeze, nor can I ctrl+alt+dlt, I just have to wait it out to gain functionality back again.