I'm having trouble with a new build

hetror

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My build (I just changed to the CPU and Mobo):
i5 4670k
ASUS Z97-A mobo
NVIDIA GTX 660
650w PSU

The problems I'm having only occur when gaming (Tested in DayZ SA, Arma 3, CSGO, and LoL).

The first problem I've experienced is the 1 second freeze and loss of audio, causing me to unplug and plug my headset back in(USB), this of course makes me restart my game as I no longer have audio.

The other problem I've been having is my games freezing within 10 minutes of playing, sometimes with a driver crash, sometimes not. The freezes require me to go into task manager and end the process.

Today, after turning my PC on, I was able to play both CSGO and DayZ for around an hour each with no problems. I then went back to CSGO and my game froze. After relaunching the game and getting into a match my whole computer started to "Stutter," freezing for 2 seconds, then normal for 1 second, then back to freezing. Even after getting to task manager and stopping the game, the system was still stuttering. I had to shut it down and restart.

The temps of my CPU and GPU are not extreme when these problems occur

I'm not too sure what the problem is, and I've updated both my audio and video drivers to attempt to fix them. Could this be my PSU not giving enough power or something? Any help or suggestions is appreciated. Thanks!
 

hetror

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Yes, I first dowloaded the new drivers from Geforce Experience, but then downgraded them back to 337.88 to see if the drivers were the problem.

I just launched csgo, and turned on v-sync. When I initially launched the game my whole PC froze for about 10 seconds, screens went black, came back, and then the game launched. When loading into a game it happened again and my graphics drivers had crashed.

EDIT: Another issue I just experienced was when watching a youtube video. The audio had a slight crackling in it, then my whole computer froze, while the audio still worked. Both monitors went black, then the displays came back. Is this looking like a GPU problem now?

EDIT2: After the above, doing almost anything such as closing a window/bringing up a window would freeze/crash my display drivers. I decided to restart my PC and change a "System tuning" setting on my BIOS back to normal (I changed it to performance earlier this morning to attempt to fix my original problems). The system failed to start multiple times, then gave me a windows failed to start error, then started fine. Before running any games, watching videos, streams, etc do not cause drivers to crash or freeze.