Weird PC Stability issues

[Paul M]

HI, so you might have seen my last few posts and theyre kinda similar to this problem that im having.

 

Basically i'm odd stability issues mainly with games where before i was running my games fine at 60+ fps but lately ive been having my frames drop dramatically. I originally thought it might be my GPU so i upgraded it from a gtx 660 to a 960 but i still get those weird framedrops and stutters frequently. Im contemplating just wiping out everything but the OS and just starting over, anything you guys think it could be?

 

One other thing that happened was i was playing cs go and i was just randomly exited out of the game, like it just shut down for no reason and i never hit alt f4 or any other keys besides WASD

 

Intel Core i7-3770 3.4GHz Quad-Core CPU

 

EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SSC 2GB Video Card

 

Corsair Vengeance 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory

 

ASRock Z75 Pro3 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard

 

Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive

 

SeaSonic S12II 520W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply

 

Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit) 

 

Dell S2440L 60Hz 24.0" Monitor

[Guest]

Your CPU may be thermal throttling, considering it's thermal compound is about 3-4 years old now.