Yes, that's the entire reason.
Case closed.

Also why are you even looking at the GPU clockrates? Have you looked at the GPU usage?

Diagnose first, buy useless things later.

http://www.teamfortress.tv/post/722588/is-it-possible-worth-it-to-upgrade-my-pc

10 years old tech at this point.

Also everything must use Frostbite because EA owns DICE.
Mass Effect had working facial animations, but they used Unreal Engine.
Why pay for licensing an engine when you own one?

So then you get a partial port if anything at all, CyberScan for all faces and then because CyberScan is great they decided to leave everything as is or only do minimal manual work, and even then only Aliens got the BioWare treatment, the rest got outsourced EA Bucharest. No offense to EA Bucharest or whoever did it, but with half old and half untested technology I'd rather have the guys who got it to run the first time and then worked on it for 10 years in charge of fixing the fuckups instead of whoever was available at the time.

Point is EA is really good at making decisions that are perfectly sound from a business perspective and save them lots of money and lead to games always being on time and within budget, but also utter garbage.

I am rather skeptical of this one too.

No.
If you pulled the plug for 1-2 seconds it wouldn't stutter either, would it?
No power means the hardest of hard crashes, not just a little stutter.

Image + sound or just sound dying is usually just nVidia drivers vs Windows 10.

Just any stress test. High GPU + decent CPU load would be Unigine Heaven/Valley.
Google them. Pretty self explanatory how to run them.

You're doing it wrong.
Update the drivers first or stop complaining.

Have you considered the possibility that since it worked before and doesn't anymore you might've plugged it in wrong?

So you changed something, it doesn't boot at all anymore and that means it's fixed?
I'm not sure if I can follow that logic.

You're legitimately going to spend more on a single SSD than on the CPU?
You want to drop 500 bucks on an overclockable CPU and mobo, but 19$ on a cooler? And then you somehow need 11$ thermal paste for it?
Then add a 750W PSU for a 400W build.

And you have an inkling that it's not the best value for money if you only want to play light games?
No shit, sherlock.

#2276
Depends on what you're going to use it for.

#2277
Yes.

Basically if it happens again, after a completely different time and the temps are the same then it's probably the PSU overheating.
You should be able to force it by running stress tests.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3_lVSrPB6w

He used it as a HUD, always displaying the most important information.