Basically I wanted to upgrade my CPU from my a4-7300 duel core to an AMD Athlon X4 860K quad-core. I bought this new CPU used. Since putting it in everything has worked fine until I decide to play games. It freezes my system at random times and I often can't do much for a while until it unfreezes. However, I can still talk to people on discord while it's frozen which confuses me. Icons and things disappear from the games as if it's trying to save resources or something. Sound also randomly cuts out and never comes back. The power usage of this CPU is around 50W higher than my old CPU which makes me think its a power issue. I need help trying to figure out why this happens so hopefully, someone can lead me in the right direction.
My system specs are
Nvidia Gt 1030
AMD Athlon X4 860K quad-core
8gb ddr3 ram
300w power supply
Gigabyte GA-f2A68HM-HD2 motherboard
Sff 455gb HDD (pretty old I think)
windows 7 pro
My system specs are
Nvidia Gt 1030
AMD Athlon X4 860K quad-core
8gb ddr3 ram
300w power supply
Gigabyte GA-f2A68HM-HD2 motherboard
Sff 455gb HDD (pretty old I think)
windows 7 pro