So I opened the PC case, I cleaned up the dust inside (there was some on my graphics card). Luckily there is another pci-e slot like the one that was used so I switched to it. The first time I booted windows the resolution was lowered as if it didn't find the graphics card, but when i restarted my PC it got back to normal. I opened BF1 and with DX12 enabled, memory restriction disabled this time, and everything else on low I tried to get into a game. This time even the sound sounded choppy in the loading screen (that never happened before), and after major lag like last time the game froze with the last few milliseconds of sound being repeated constantly so again I mechanically restarted my PC.
On my second try I ran the game in windowed mode with speccy on the right side. Having DX12 disabled this time and everything else unchanged, I got into a game, in the loading screen there was not a major temperature change. After a minute or two my CPU's temperature was at 67C peak and my GPU at 46C. There was a slight lag at times and after the third minute the game crashed to origin.
As for overclocking, I manually do not have my cpu / gpu on overclock, but when I entered my bios settings, under Ai Tweaker -> CPU Power Management -> "Turbo Mode" and "Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology" were enabled. I don't know if that falls under the category of overclocking.
