Upgrade CPU Cooler

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A friend's 15 year old son has a PC with the spec below.
All was well until he started playing games such as Star Wars, Avowed, Delta Force, Minecraft.
After anywhere between 90 minutes and 2 hours it will suddenly crash and reboot.
I have run Prime95 and the CPU gets into the 90's rather quickly though I haven't been brave enough to continue with the test!
I've run MemTest for 4 hours without any issues.

Being an old git, I'm unfamiliar with these games (MSFS is my weakness!) and how they are set up but the lad says he selects "let windows decide" when setting parameters.
Would I be right in thinking the stock CPU cooler is insufficient for these types of games?
And if so, could someone recommend a suitable replacement please, that would do the job.


Aerocool Dryft v2 Midi-Tower ATX Case
Corsair RMx Series RM750x 80 PLUS Gold Fully Modular ATX PSU
Asus Prime B650M-A WIFI II (Socket AM5) DDR5 Micro-ATX Motherboard
AMD Ryzen 5 7600 Six Core 5.10GHz (Socket AM5) Processor – Retail
PowerColor AXRX 6600 8GBD6-3DH GPU AMD Radeon RX 6600 8 Go GDDR6
TeamGroup Delta RGB 32GB (2X16GB) DDR5 PC5-49600C38 6200MHz Dual Channel Kit Ram
WD Black SN770 1TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen4 Solid State Drive (WDS100T3X0E)
Asrock 27" PG27FF1A 1920x1080 IPS 165Hz 1ms FreeSync HDR Widescreen Gaming Monitor
 
Check the airflow too. Have the fans been set to always run at minimum speeds? Is the case in A location with restricted airflow?
Yes location is good thanks and the CPU fan does vary in speed. However, the six case fans don't seem to vary though they look to be running fast.
I would have thought they should be controllable, but there are no options for them in the BIOS or Asus Crate.
 
It's a 7 fan hub which came with the case. Power via SATA and cables to an Addressable Gen 2 header and a fan header.
 
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