pc crashing ingame

[SooWhat]

My pc randomly crashes during gameplay. No, no bluescreen. The screen freezes during gaming and the sound "gets stuck". A reboot fixes it and i can game again, but the crashing still keeps happening aprox. once every two days. Adjusted my gpu fan speed for the card to never go over 67°C. CPU stays only around 55°C during gaming. 

Im just getting really frustrated with it.

 

It happens during Apex Legends (Im just playing this right now).

 

All suggestions are welcome

 

Specs:

• CPU
  AMD FX 8320 3.5Ghz (lapped)
• Motherboard
  ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0
• RAM
  Kingston HyperX Beast 2x4GB DDR3 2400MHz CL11
• GPU
  MSI HD 7850 2GB
• Case
  Kolink Observatory Black
• Storage
  WD Green 2TB
• PSU
  InWin GreenMe 650W 80+ Bronze

[TukangUsapEmenq]

That WD Green doesn't supposed for daily usage tho, especially gaming that needs constant read-speed. It runs slow (it is designed for huge amount of data storage). Probably that's why the game is lagging.

 

Get a faster HDD (like WD Blue) or, just upgrade to SSD. Use the faster drive one for boot and gaming drive, or few apps if you use them either (that needs speed, either).  No need a lot of them tho, 120 GB or 250 GB might be enough as you can actually use the Green one for data storage.

 

[SooWhat]

1 minute ago, dhannemon13 said:

That WD Green doesn't supposed for daily usage tho, especially gaming that needs constant read-speed. It runs slow (it is designed for huge amount of data storage). Probably that's why the game is lagging.

 

Get a faster HDD (like WD Blue) or, just upgrade to SSD. Use the faster drive one for boot and gaming drive, or few apps if you use them either (that needs speed, either).  No need a lot of them tho, 120 GB or 250 GB might be enough as you can actually use the Green one for data storage.

 

I havent said anything about lag tho

Also, Im planning to get a 500gb ssd after I upgrade my GPU/ whatever is broken in my pc

[TukangUsapEmenq]

5 minutes ago, SooWhat said:

I havent said anything about lag tho

Also, Im planning to get a 500gb ssd after I upgrade my GPU/ whatever is broken in my pc

Whoops, not lags then, didn't read it carefully.

But yeah, both crashes and lags can be the same reason either. That WD Green can affect it.

 

It's from me, others can tell another.

 

 

And get that SSD if you wanna survive the desperation of crashes lol

[Optane^]

Try other games. Maybe Apex just won't play nice with your machine.

 

See if you can recreate it while doing either high intensity CPU usage or GPU usage. Try and narrow it down. Run Memtest