PC is freezing after a clean install of windows 7

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So I have been having lots of stability issues with Windows 7 in the past, and tried everything to avoid a clean install. This Saturday, I bit the bullet and decided to perform a clean install wipe of everything. Well, I suppose I shouldn't have because today I started having the same issues as before, random freezes with no apparent reasons.

I ran a disk check, it came up fine. I ran memtester and it came up fine as well. Any other ideas what it could be? Sunday it worked all day with no issues. Today it crashed twice, once while watching netflix, the other when opening google chrome after a crash.

Any tips are helpful!
 
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So for my parts I have
PSU: Antec 750W model HCG-750
CPU: AMD 6350-FX
MoBo: ASRock 970 Extreme 3
GPU: Nvidia 660, 3GB Ram
HDD: Western Digital HDD 1.5TB
Memory: Corsair 8GB 240-pin3 1333 DDR3 Ram
I have an aftermarket cooler, but I can't remember the name of it (installed way before these issues happened).

Do you need anything more than this?
 
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That's a good start. Is it a air cooler or liquid cooler? Do you have any software for monitoring your temps? Are you over clocked?

I would think that heat could be causing the lockup or voltage issues. the PSU seems like a good model though, how long have you had it?
 
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Ive had the PSU for about 3 years now. It is an Air cooler. I do not currently have software monitoring my temps but whenever it freezes I always feel where the CPU is to make sure it isn't hot.

Right now I do not overclock. I did just realize I forgot to update my drivers for the MoBo, so hopefully that helps, but if not then I think I ruled out a software issue and it is a hardware issue instead.
 
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That would be a good idea, i would also what BIOS version you are running and see what the latest is, that could sometimes be it, or at least if you look up the latest versions it will tell you what it fixes. I would get Open hardware monitor, to make sure temps aren't abnormal just to be safe.
 
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Ok I will look into that. I did update the BIOS to the latest verion right after the clean install.

If updating these last drivers don't work, I plan on rolling back my Nvidia driver to the point where my PC was stable (before I was having this issue, everything was fine until I updated my Nvidia drivers). Hopefully it works well, if not that is my last resort before replacing the HDD.
 
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I shouldn't be, I am using the one from Nvidia's control panel.

It could be unrelated, but I hear sometimes updating drivers causes more problems than solves them, so I would be interested as well. Hopefully I wont have another freeze and then I wont have to worry about it.
 
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yeah sometimes that is the case, can cause issues, unless that is adding a feature that the video card cant handle or is causing it some sort of issue. if you don't have issues after that then i wouldn't worry about it, I wonder too if the PSU might be going bad, or if the video card has an issue other than software.
 
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