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the Ryzen 3 2200G can edit videos pretty well, the only thing to consider is that since its a 4 core CPU, rendering the video can take some time. PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant Type Item Price CPU AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2 GHz 6-Core Processor $127.50 @ Amazon Motherboard Gigabyte - B450M DS3H Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard $71.88 @ OutletPC Memory G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory $94.99 @ Newegg Business Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total (before mail-in rebates) $309.37 Mail-in rebates -$15.00 Total $294.37 Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-04-12 07:17 EDT-0400 I picked some parts for you since you mentioned that you can't afford anything over 300, and since you also told me that you wanted to edit videos, I saw that you could afford the Ryzen 5 1600 and 16GB 3200 RAM. Hope this suits you ?

I agree with Sychic, the best you can do is go for a ssd, I had a lot of HDDs who got the same error as yours, and everytime it was the HDD and not anything software related. Changing to ssd was one of the best upgrades i've made

The monitor's cable is connected to the GPU? if yes, have you tried clearing the CMOS?

Have you checked the CPU Clocks while in-game? I had a problem with my Ryzen 7 1800x in which the clocks would go way below expected, worth checking out

The M5A78L-M do not support the 8350 (My past mistakes...), if you are going to game only, not doing CPU intensive tasks (Rendering a Video, for example), I would not focus on changing the processor, though i had A LOT OF PROBLEMS with the FX series, mostly due to bad Motherboards, being the M5A78L-M one of them, if you're not having any problem, don't bother changing, if you do want to change, go for Ryzen (you will have to change the Motherboard and the RAM as well, it can be expensive). So the best performance per dollar spent for you right now would be upgrading the GPU.