[SOLVED] Upgraded Motherboard and CPU, now Games are Crashing

[Marcus99389]

I bought an old gaming PC last year with an AMD Phenom II X4 840 and a GTX 560 and hoped to upgrade the graphics card to see a performance boost so I could play some modern games. My choice of upgrade was the GTX 1050 but I didn't anticipate how much the GPU would be bottlenecked by the CPU. Eventually the CPU started to slow down and after a quick search I found that putting a GPU too powerful for the CPU can damage it and a damaged CPU can also damage other components.

So I upgraded the CPU and the motherboard to a Ryzen 3 1200 that I overclocked to 3.6Ghz and now when I play games they crash. Sometimes they crash on startup and sometimes only after playing for about 20-40 minutes. I was in the middle of playing Dishonored 2 when I got the first full system crash and got an error code "DPG Watchdog Violation" and after searching that I saw that primary causes are outdated drivers or old incompatible storage firmware.

When I upgraded the motherboard I had to get DDR4 RAM and I found a cheap pair of Corsair Vengeance sticks for 50£ and I fear that these might be dodgy sticks. So I don't know where my problem lies, I've already updated my drivers both for my motherboard and GPU.

Can anyone tell me if the problem might be with the RAM, the old Hard Drive or my Graphics Card or perhaps something else entirely?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Supahos]

You need to reinstall Windows if you haven't already. You can't just pop a hard drive in a new pc and have it work properly

 

[Marcus99389]

Coming back to this post now, just found it again while searching for solutions to another problem.

I feel like it might help to record what my solution was if anybody finds this similar problem.

It was a while ago so I don't remember exactly what I did but I believe it was an incompatibility with the RAM cards, I now have a new pair of RAM sticks and have not gotten a crash like this since the original post long ago.

Not sure if this helps you stranger but I wish you good luck!