BSODs/Game crashes when playing certain games

[Microsoft Windows]

This notably started after I upgraded my CPU to an I5-11400, which was already a replacement for an 11400f which I had the same issues as I thought it was a hardware failure at first. I can do most tasks completely fine until I run games such as GTA V and Rainbow Six Siege where the game crashes or, in the case of Siege, I get a bluescreen within minutes. However, I can play games such as Team Fortress 2 and Counter Strike completely fine for hours. I have run memtest86 and it came back with 0 errors, along with a reinstall/downgrade from Windows 11 to 10 and having run driver verifier, SFC sc

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