(Solved) AMD FX 8350 keeps throttling down to 1.32 GHz & Something about window's kernel?

Shabby420

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I was playing ARK: Survival Evolved a bit, the temps on my CPU were around 50-57c (Socket temps, for some reason HWMonitor doesn't display my core temps) I was playing for about an hour and a half. I came back after an hour, logged on YouTube to get some tunes playing and all of the sudden my computer freezes (display and sound) then a message says something about a window's kernel driver but it went away too fast to read. Well anyway after that happened my CPU throttled down for the second time within a month.

I'm not sure what exactly to do, I think it might be my CM EVO's fan? I also think my NVIDIA graphics driver is crashing, I re-installed it but the problem keeps happening.



My specs:

CPU/APU: AMD FX 8350 Black Edition, Not Overclocked.

Motherboard: MSI Gaming 970

RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws Series (F3-12800CL9D-8GBRL), 2x 4GB, 800.00 MHz DRAM Frequency

Power Supply: EVGA NEX650G 650w

Graphics Card: EVGA GTX 960 ssc, Not Overclocked.

Hard Disk Drive: Seagate Barracuda (ST1000DM003) 1TB

Solid State Disk Drive: None

Operating System: Windows 10, 64 bit
 
I have a similar problem.
When i stay on windows/other programs the computer is fine but when i go gaming i have system crash with a black screen and sound buzzing. No BSOD reports.
The problem is somewhere in the 970 chipset or bios that don't put the right voltage on some AMD cpus (my cpu is an FX-8370E).
Solution for me (and maybe for you) rise the CPU voltages to about 1.27v - 1.30v (you can go to about 1.4v in safety with a good cpu cooler)
now i have no more system crash in any games and the cpu tens are still under 35º.
 


I think my problem is more a temperature problem, but I thought the Cooler Master Hyper EVO 212 should cool my fx 8350 no problem. I'm thinking it might be the fan on it?
 
UPDATE: I went to my BIOS hardware monitor and I turned my case fans up to 80% and my CPU fan to 1400 RPM. After that I saved and rebooted, I logged on my speeds were back to 3.80 - 4.04 GHz but then the "Crash" with the windows kernel NVIDIA driver happened and my speeds went back down after that. I uninstalled my NVIDIA drivers and I froze again, picture still there mouse couldn't move, couldn't do anything. I restarted my computer and am now reinstalling drivers.

It stopped the crashing (I think) and I figured out if I disable "CPU Smart Protection" in my BIOS it brings my 4.00GHz back. But is that safe? :s