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PC randomly restarts

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So when my PC is under heavy stress (especially gaming) it starts to give some electrical sound (not beeping, I don't know how to describe the sound) and then freezes, BSOD and restarts. Sometimes when it restarts, it starts a disk repair. This started a couple of weeks ago and I haven't found any clue what causes this.

Any idea what causes this?
 
I have an HKC 650W PSU which is almost 5 years old

My specs are:
Windows 10 64 bit
Motherboard: ASUS F1A55-V
CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 631 2.6GHz
GPU: Gigabyte Nvidia GTX 560 Ti OC
RAM: NANYA 2GB PC3-10600U DDR3 x4
Storage: Seagate 500Gb HDD

A PC technician built this computer about 5 years ago, and I didn't change anything in it.
No, I don't overclock anything.
 
I'd be stripping it down firstly, that'll allow inspection and cleaning of all parts.
reassemble everything on a piece of cardboard on the table or floor and start it up.
if the same issue occurs, I'd then be looking at backing up all my data and loading a fresh copy of Win10.
you could try a repair install of Win10 (keeping your programs and data) but at 5 years old, it wouldn't hurt nuking it from orbit and starting afresh with everything.

then, from the clean slate state, run the rig without any additional software for a few days and see if the issue occurs.
if not, add one program at a time and test it out again.
during all that, if it's hardware, it'll show itself - like failing hard drive.
or if it's software, you'll know it the last program installed when it starts crashing again.
 
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