The PC is 5 years old ( the cpu came out in 2013 I guess) and the PSU is from 2016 (not the older split rail one). I tried your advice and underclocked it as much as I could i.e. 700ish MHz core clock and 1000 MHz memory clock, the power consumption on full load dropped to 25 watts, I thought...
Its an old pc and I just want to get by these few months before I go away for college and buy a gaming laptop.
Specs are:
Athlon X4 740 cpu
Gigabyte GA-F2A55M-DS2 rev 3.0 motherboard
Corsair VS450 psu
8 Gb DDR3 ram
The cpu doesn't even support pcie gen3 so there's no point in getting a better gpu.
I bought a used XFX RX 560D dual fan from china more than a month ago (no possiblity of return/refund), and things haven't been great since. At first I was having similar crashes (as given in title) but with blue dots within few minutes of launching a game, that turned out to be a driver issue...
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