Computer freezing up :c

Alice_20

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Dec 20, 2016
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Hi, My computer keeps freezing up while i'm doing anything even just on my desktop, If i'm playing games I can usually still hear the game and my discord but the screen freezes. I thought it was my graphics card so I replaced it to a GTX750Ti but it's still happening, i've also tried factory resetting it back to when I first got it and re-installing drivers to no avail. My CPU is an i5 4440 3.10ghz and I have 8 Gb of RAM, i'm running windows 8. On my task manager my disk usage spikes to 100% randomly but I've tried everything suggested online to stop it and nothing helps.
 
Could be overheating, could be a failing hard drive, bad power supply. Run a disk check utility from the drive vendor to see if there are any errors. What are the temps of the system? HWMonitor will be able to tell you, run that program and run a game or benchmark or something to stress the system, not the high temp range. What is the power supply brand and model? Did you try different RAM or one stick at a time, or moving RAM slots?