Computer freezes/locks up loading and playing games.

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DolphinSpanker

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So recently when loading some games and playing games my PC will freeze. I can still hear discord and my music but I can't do anything at all. The only way to fix it currently is to force restart my computer. When running games the hottest my cpu gets is 57c and my gpu gets around 55c, So I don't believe it is caused by overheating.
I've done a furmark stress test, as well as a prime 95 stress test and the PC didn't freeze or crash.
All drivers are up to date.

Specs:
i7-4790K 4.20ghz
EVGA GTX 1080 FTW
16gb DDR3 Kingston hyperX RAM
Kraken X61 Cooler
MSI Z97 Gaming Motherboard
EVGA Supernova 850 G2 Power Supply
Samsung SSD 840 EVO (OS Only)
1TB Western Digital Blue and Black
SanDisk Ultra II 480 SSD
Windows 10 Pro

Thanks in advance
 
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urbancamper
Have you tried a different gpu driver recently? If so go back to the old one. Other then that since you not experiencing overheating possibly you are having a memory issue. Test the memory. The last thing i can think of is perhaps your power supply has gone faulty. First if you have different gpu ports on your power supply try those. Or if you can get your hands on another one try that. i know that last one is a headache.
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DolphinSpanker

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Lets hope we can find a solution, it's just started to happen.
 
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Ray7600

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Having the exact same problem.
Unfortunately neither of our threads seemed to get much help :(
No problems with stress tests but playing Battlefield 1 freezes my system at times.

Tell me something... when you have to manually reset the PC, does it boot up immediately ?
In my case I need to keep the PC turned off for a minute or so so as to cool it down and then it boots up.

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3420928/freezing-caused-cpu-overheating.html

My system:

AMD A8-7600
Zotac GTX 1050 Ti 4G OC
2x4GB DDR3 1600 Mhz Corsair Valueselect RAM
Gigabyte F2A68HM-S1 mobo
Antec VP 550P
Windows 10 64-bit
 
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Have you tried a different gpu driver recently? If so go back to the old one. Other then that since you not experiencing overheating possibly you are having a memory issue. Test the memory. The last thing i can think of is perhaps your power supply has gone faulty. First if you have different gpu ports on your power supply try those. Or if you can get your hands on another one try that. i know that last one is a headache.
 
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I figured out the cause to my problems was the Windows 10 Creators update. I ended up having to reformat and go to build 1511 for the time being. Since I went back I've had 0 freezes. I had ran memtest85, Prime95, chkdsk and everything else I could think of thinking it was failing hardware but turns out it was software. Was very frustrating to figure out but I'm glad my PC is working fine again
 
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Ray7600

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Been always using Win 10 Version 1511 and still have the freezing issues.
I know for a fact that it isn't my GPU drivers since the freezing first happened while using an AMD card and since then I've switched to an NVIDIA card, updated drivers multiple times and have had issues with all of them.
Tested memory using Memtest but found no errors.
Power supply fault is very unlikely since it's brand new(bought in March) and I'm sure it delivers enough power.
My graphics card doesn't even require a 6 pin connector.
 
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