PC is randomly freezing

[TsubasaLi]

Hello everyone,

 

I've made some upgrades to my system that I got from a site that is similar to iBuyPower, CyberPowerPC. It was not a pre-built, I used their configurator about 2 years ago during the worst possible time to build one (Dec. 2017) but I needed a new PC quickly as my old one "passed away" (insanely slow but that one was a pre-built that I got for cheap). The only upgrade I've done was swap out the MSI AERO ITX GTX1050, the 2x4GB Samsung value RAM and install a 500GB SSD as my boot drive and use my pre-existing 1TB Seagate Barracuda as a pure storage drive.

 

Long story short ever since I installed my new GPU and SSD (Sapphire RX 580 8GB, 500GB 970 EVO Plus) I have experienced very random freezes. Sometimes the freeze is barely noticeable as I can still move my cursor (the screen itself is frozen though), on other occasions everything freezes and I can't move the cursor. Then there are the very rare occasions where my screen just turns black (because of the freeze) and ultimately turns off because it doesn't detect a signal anymore. Another thing that has happened was that my PC bluescreened on me but this has only happened 1 or 2 times. I've look for advice pretty much everywhere but nothing has really proven beneficial.

 

I've checked that everything is plugged in correctly, even though it is near impossible for something to be loose. I've even went back to base clock on my GPU (OC'd it to 1450 on the core clock), I've completely wiped both my storage devices and did a full, clean install of windows on my SSD, reinstalled all drivers and everything else but... nothing. Everything is still the same I still get the random freezes and it seems like my screen turning off has become a bit "more" present as it happened to me 2 times in the last 2 weeks. This problem I'm having happens everywhere. It happens while just being idle and in some rare cases my monitor flickers, goes black for about 2 second goes back to the regular screen only to to black for 2 seconds again.

 

I didn't have any problems with the pc up until a month after I installed everything. I also noticed some coil whine while playing apex but that's random as well, sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't. When it happens, it only does so while playing Apex. I play/do everything on 1080p@60.

 

PC specs are as follows:

 

• i5-7500 CPU
• Sapphire Radeon RX580 8GB (latest GPU drivers)
• 16 GB (2x8) Corsair Vengeance RGB 3000Mhz CL15 RAM
• ASUS Prime Z270-K Motherboard (latest bios)
• Samsung EVO 970 Pus (latest firmware and nvme drivers)
• Seagate Barracuda 1TB HDD 7200rpm
• Corsair TX550M PSU