Low FPS followed by PC crashing

[Joe_106]

Hello, I have been having trouble with my pc lately:
Whenever I play a game, it's starts off well and after about 10-20 minutes of gameplay (sometimes more depending on the game) I start to get low Framerate and it becomes difficult to play. Then after about an other 10 minutes of playing with lower fps the whole computer will end up crahing leaving me with the screen ending up freezing and some odd sounds before it shuts down. I thought at first that it was the power supply that was insufficient so I'd changed it for a better and more powerfull one. Today the same thing was going to happen but before it could crash, I had quit the game at the low framerate stage of the problem..
Please could anyone help me out?

Windows 10
Mobo- Gigabyte 970A-UD3P
CPU- AMD Fx 8320E
GPU- Msi Geforce GTX 750 ti twin frozr
32 gb of ram (ddr3)
And the brand new FSP Raider 750 W 80 plus silver power supply
(all of the components are relatively new (not even 6 months old)

 

[Thineswar]

1.try monitoring the temperatures of your cpu
2. did you overclock?

 

[thehutti]

Sound like overheating to me, When a CPU or GPU gets to hot it will first try to lower it's speed (called Thermal-Throtteling), that can cause the low fps/stuttering. If that doesn't help anymore then it shuts down to prevent damage.

 

[Joe_106]

Well that's what I thought but I use MSI afterburner to overclock my gpu slightly and it never goes over 50*C and I use AMD overdrive to get my cpu up to 4ghz which is it's boost clock speed anyway and again.. I use the Core Temp app to check the temperatures and once again it had never managed to get over 40*C
And I had also tested lowering the graphics quality to the minimum specs in certain games and then lower the gpu and cpu clock speeds to about 70% of what they started out as and even though it took longer,the same issues occurred after a while..

 

[Thineswar]

40c? what cpu cooler are you using?
you may try to update your graphics drivers
and, you should never overclock using any tools, just do it manually, try returning them to stock speeds.

 

[Joe_106]

Hyper tx3 evo with two 92mm fans on either side

 

[Joe_106]

I have updated the graphics driver.. I even deleted and reinstalled NVidia GeForce experience and downloaded the latest graphics driver
and I have overclocked with Msi afterburner for quite a while and have never had any issues with it, this problem is rather recent..

 

[Thineswar]

that 40 seems to be a bit too low especially after overclocking it.
anyway, i meant you using overdrive to overclock. cpu overclocks should be done through the bios.
afterburner is quite reliable.

 

[thehutti]

Well first disable all overclock settings back to default and try if that fixes the problem. CPU Temps of under 40°C while stressing it and cooling it by air are also unlikely. Maybe Coretemp is not showing the right temps.

 

[Joe_106]

well I thought it was a little strange,do you have an other reliable monitoring hardware to recommend to me?
I don't mind paying either if it means having quality..

 

[Thineswar]

afterburner and overdrive monitors your cpu temps
or, you could try hwmonitor: http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html

 

[Joe_106]

don't you think it's best that I delete overdrive and stick with msi afterburner?

 

[Joe_106]

HWmonitor seems to be showing the same temperatures I was getting before, I've now deleted overdrive and core temp aswell, i'll post anything if I have the same problem as before

 

[Joe_106]

okay so I've been playing portal 2 with a friend for quite a while now and nothing bad has happened and HWmonitor has given me 50*C as the max temp that the cpu got up to, fan speeds got up to 1600rpm but what is strange is that I've now deleted overdrive and so no more oc on the cpu and yet HWmonitor is telling me that the cpu's max clock speed was 4000mhz or 4ghz which is not normal as it should be at 3.2ghz,it's base clock speed..
now I know its boost speed is 4ghz and that it's an unlocked processor but I've not enabled turbo boost and I don't even know how to on this mobo and it's probably through the bios .. is this normal that it has peaked at that speed?

 

[thehutti]

Turbo boost is normally active by default, so if a game requires the extra speed on a core then it should automatically go up to 4000mhz.

 

[Joe_106]

okay, thanks for the answer