hello, this thread is old but this freezing thing still bugs me . I ran memtest86 and passed with no errors, done chkdsk thingy and passed and no errors, checked my hard drive with hard disk sentinel and both my ssd and hdd 100% perfomance and health. i upgraded drivers for all possible things in my pc, usbs, gpu drivers. my pc is still 4,4ghz @ 1.2v and if overclock wasnt stable it would bsod instead of just freeze and only chance to get out is press restart button on my pc. also checked event viewer but there is nothing critical showing up expect "system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first" also overclock has been stable since 2018 summer until recently decemeber, so it wouldnt make much sense if suddenly its unstable. i stress tested it right now with intelburntest (not best i know, but rapes temps imo) and reached 80c just like when i first overclocked it and pc didnt freeze. also recently changed my gpu from r9 280x to 1060 3gb(little bit power saver) and i have 550w so i think its nott power supply either. reinstalled windows 10 multiple times, still keeps happening. i dont know how to reproduce this error either only thing is when i watch youtube videos and browse in other tabs it sometimes freezes also. please help, im really considering buying whole pc parts new just because this freezing error . i dont know which component is causing it, not gpu, not ram, not hard drive, probably not psu and probably not cpu.