My computer freezes whilst gaming or editing films. (Needs hard reset)

Confused Antelope

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Hello folks.

So I've been having this problem with my computer for quite some time, recently it got really bad and therefore I am trying to find a possible solution as I need the computer for work and a little bit
of entertainment. It's happening daily now, whenever I am editing films or playing games after some time my PC freezes and everything stops responding, the fans carry on spinning but the image on the screen stays the same, the power to my keyboard is cut off as the lights would turn off if I'd pressed any button on it. I have installed 3D Mark to test my PC and whilst it ran all of the low performance tests, it froze again on the ones with lower FPS. The problem started being the most frustrating when I tried to export or transcode footage and my PC would freeze 10 minutes in. Please help! :)

If I want to use my pc for internet, watching films or anything else I can do that but when it comes to more intense stuff, it freezes and requires a hard reset. Before I thought it could be a problematic PSU so I've bought a new one but the problem remained. Also did the old trick with RAM and it still crashed when I was running on only one, I have swapped them around as well.

Here are my specs:

CPU: AMD FX-9590 8 Core 4,70GHz - cooled with Corsair h110i
GPU: ZOTAC GeForce GTX 780 OC 3GB GDDR5
RAM: Kingston HyperX Beast 8GB DDR3 PC3-19200 2400MHz x 4 (32GB total)
Storage: Crucial BX100 500GB SSD x 2
Motherboard: ASRock 990FX Extreme9 AMD 990FX
PSU: EVGA SuperNova G1 1000W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply

Please help, I'm in my final year of university and I need my PC more than ever.
Thank you for your time.
 

Toothless010

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are you monitor your hardware temps?? You might find an entry in "windows event viewer" at the exact time of your issue in a log file to tell you more.

"Also did the old trick with RAM and it still crashed when I was running on only one"....what was the end result here? You run MEM Test on your RAM?
 

Confused Antelope

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Yeah I've checked my temperatures and they don't go beyond stupid, I think I get 80C during gaming on my GPU, CPU is normally sticking to similar but lower numbers. Yeah I've ran MEM test and nothing flagged up. I think it might be my graphics card that's dying but I don't have a spare one to put into my computer to test it out.