Performance crash to 2 fps when recording

[Admiral Fear]

My brother is trying to get a gaming youtube channel going (please no comments on the viability of this), and he seems to randomly experience performance crashes, down to 2 frames per second. The only way he's been able to get his performance back has been to restart the computer. He's had these performance crashes as well as occasional dropped frames.He uses Fraps as his recording software, but trying OPS and Xsplit didn't fix it. I've always been a hardware guy, and things like this just confound me, as an Ivy Bridge i5 + r9 290 should be plenty for recording League, Binding of Isaac, and Overwatch. Any thoughts? I personally don't do media production so I'm new to this.

The specs:

i5-3350P
Gigabyte r9 290

8 GB of RAM

some crappy $50 mobo to replace a broken one

[SirDucksallot]

My brother is trying to get a gaming youtube channel going (please no comments on the viability of this), and he seems to randomly experience performance crashes, down to 2 frames per second. The only way he's been able to get his performance back has been to restart the computer. He's had these performance crashes as well as occasional dropped frames.He uses Fraps as his recording software, but trying OPS and Xsplit didn't fix it. I've always been a hardware guy, and things like this just confound me, as an Ivy Bridge i5 + r9 290 should be plenty for recording League, Binding of Isaac, and Overwatch. Any thoughts? I personally don't do media production so I'm new to this.

The specs:

i5-3350P

Gigabyte r9 290

8 GB of RAM

some crappy $50 mobo to replace a broken one

Are any of his components overheating?

[Sithhy]

Is he recording videos to the same partition as the games are on? Because that could cause it also

[Admiral Fear]

His processor isn't overclocked, so that shouldn't be a problem. He also only has a single hard drive that just has everything on it. The processor's heat-sink might not be seated properly though, so I'll make sure.