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Go into your UEFI and disable all C States you can find, also disable Speedstep AKA EIST and finally make sure XMP is enabled.
 
Next boot into Windows, head into Control Panel > Power, click Show More Options and set the power plan to Maximum.
 
That's everything you can do (outside of overclocking) to speed your CPU up but remember what I said, Battlefield is notoriously a very CPU intensive game anyway.

sounds like more a PSU or mobo sided issue, something is not happy about the specific way how the power drops, and gets stuck in an undesirable power state.
 
yes and no.
most cheap surge protector strips essentially have the same protection as is already in the power supply.
and depending on the specific reason why it hangs, a surge protector may be completely useless.

yes, I've watched the gpu usage before...and I'm not assuming as moving the cursor or watching youtube becomes spiky here and there...
 
anyways...I just reverted to 361.75 drivers and it seems to have fixed it...testing it now on regular PC usage e.g. browsing then a few games after a while...

PSU outlook is fine really...it's just some are too broke to actually get decent PSU's like me...
I'm literally working two jobs right now and go to college at the same time...so money is tighter than my ex...

Yes. Saving a few bucks for a decent PSU is much better than spending $10 or something then lead to a house on fire

PSU outlook is fine really...it's just some are too broke to actually get decent PSU's like me...
I'm literally working two jobs right now and go to college at the same time...so money is tighter than my ex...

I was looking for really creative ones and this one takes the cake! 
 
I'll def try this one...if not...I'll go for the plexi glass method as I have some lying around. 

Mounting the drives on a piece of plexi with thick soft foam underneath works really well, you can also consider suspending the drives which eliminates all vibration basically.
http://lifehacker.com/378786/silence-your-hard-drive-with-elastic-suspenders

Get some rubber double sided tape, and you're solid! 

In really demanding newer games the GTX 760 can sometimes not even outperform the cheaper R9 270X by much.
 
You really should decide on a budget before you decide on a card, though. If you can afford something that performs like a GTX 970, and your resolution justifies it, then you should.

I'd grab the newer technology, that being the 970. The 970 is a much better card compared to the 760.

I think it works out to:
// % is the modulo operator if ((x+1)%7 != 0) //(x+1)%7?"\t%d":"\t%d\n" this is a ternary operator, basically if-else on the same line. 0 means false, not 0 means true in a boolean expression, you don't need a comparison. { if ((x/7) % 2 == 1) //x/7&1?6-x%7:x%7 another ternary operator. & is the logical AND operation. doing &1 checks the last binary digit, which is 1 if odd, 0 if even. { printf("\t%d",(arr)[x/7*7 + 6-x%7]); //x/7 is the row at which the point is. Adding to the variable arr is the same as adding the same number to the index //this is because arr is the memory index of the first element of the array, and adding 1 to arr iterates //the memory index by 1, pointing to the next index //note that iterating the memory pointer by 1 moves you 1*(the size of the data type) in memory } else { printf("\t%d",(arr)[x/7*7 + x%7]); } } else { if ((x/7) % 2 == 1) { printf("\t%d\n",(arr)[x/7*7 + 6-x%7]); } else { printf("\t%d\n",(arr)[x/7*7 + x%7]); } } } Hopefully that helps, and please never use modulo ternary operators in your code. They are very irritating to read. 
 
edit: I said modulo instead of ternary by accident. I don't really proof read.

I know this doesn't answer the question you asked, but if you're this new to programming then you definitely don't want to start with C. Start with a high level language like Java/C# which will introduce you to the concepts and design patterns for programming then move onto a lower level language like C to get a better feel for the implementation of languages e.g. pointers and memory management.

Consider the Pentium G3258 or an i3-4xxx (HT) processor and you'll be fine.

You can save up some money by buying 1TB of HDD, dunno if you need 2TB
 
You can get pretty decent SSD for $50 now
 
And I'd go with 970

Try bumping up the 1333 to 1600mhz the added speed is nice. Also considered the i5 4690K? Its slower clock-wise but better over all with a better performance/dollar ratio.

in relation to your Ram I would go in the direction of something with a CAS Latency between 7 and 9 and speed between 1600MHz - 1800MHz and finally I would only go for 8GB if you dont have to do anything but gaming
corsair vengeance 2x4GB CL7 1600MHz (product code: CMZ8GX3M2X1600C7R) 

 
I would take an i5 4690K CPU and in terms of CPU cooler I would go for 
Noctua NH-D15 or Cooler Master Nepton 280L .. it seems like they are at the top of the scale when you look at the price and efficiency.. and then you also have the possibility to play around with OC which will future-proof your system a bit..   but the rest sounds really ok ..

I would say it's a pretty good system. I would try to shave some money off of the RAM (maybe go to 8 or 12GB, I have 8 and im fine) and cooler, and redirect that money towards a better CPU.

Yeah and plus its a locked CPU anyways, so slightly better temps wont add up to much

last one is gone, i took it

So I've been recently modding my win7 UI lately, and I thought of getting rainmeter.
 
my question: is rainmeter cpu intensive? or technically something that'll eat up a little bit performance? esp for an older CPU like a core2duo?
 
any feedback would be appreciated!

Before you do that like all the helpful comments and mark as solved to stop more people from answering a answered question.

Rainmeter is amazing, i have it running on a laptop that barely runs google chrome and i see no performance difference except for 1 fps while gaming.  On my desktop no difference.

ohohoho believe me, it is an absolute challenge. I never had knowledge on coding up until I took this course, and thats the main reason why I took this course really. to know more about code. I've always really been the PC hardware kinda guy and wanted to know more a little code so yaaa. 
 
but the feeling of writing a code that works and solves the problem. just about as satisfying as sex building your first PC. well, I've never had sex built my own PC, but still a great and satisfying feeling! 

ohohoho believe me, it is an absolute challenge. I never had knowledge on coding up until I took this course, and thats the main reason why I took this course really. to know more about code. I've always really been the PC hardware kinda guy and wanted to know more a little code so yaaa. 
 
but the feeling of writing a code that works and solves the problem. just about as satisfying as sex building your first PC. well, I've never had sex built my own PC, but still a great and satisfying feeling!