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Not really sure that it is worth it being honest, your CPU and RAM being locked at the speed that they are means that your GPU performance is going to be restricted in any event.
Going offline now as I have an early start, will check back tomorrow after work.
We really don`t like giving people bad news but it is better to be up front, the computer cannot be upgraded and you are better to save up and get yourself something that can be.
The one and only test that I can suggest is to see if you are able to borrow a better quality PSU to swap in for testing, any good brand 400W Bronze or above efficiency rated PSU will do, let us know if this is possible and we will provide the info for you to test your system while there is an appropriate PSU powering the system, if that works out you know that it is worth purchasing a new PSU and likewise if it does not work out you know that it is time to move on.
Borrowing a better PSU if you can would at least give you peace of mind in knowing that you had done all the checks that you could, we advise trying to borrow one first as we wouldn’t like you to go ahead and purchase an appropriate PSU only to find that the performance was the same.
A bad PSU will not normally cause BSOD unless it is affecting the voltages to the memory slots.
Software such as Windows can crash and when it does crash you get a BSOD and when enabled a crash dmp is generated.
Hardware failure such as a weak power supply and/or overheating are not software related and when a computer freezes or suddenly turns off the behaviour should be described as the “computer shut down unexpectedly” and not as having crashed as the latter implies a software issue as opposed to an obvious hardware issue when described properly.
Having the correct info means that helpers will not be looking for a software issue when the problem is clearly hardware related.
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