SOLVED:
After narrowing down all the components to be certain it was the CPU, and testing a lot of other things I won't even mention here, I found a solution to this strange behavior.
Freezing when idle seemed to me to be some sort of setting or option that was toggled, but because I had...
I'm pretty sure it's the CPU, just don't know how to fix the problem
The CPU works, I can game, I'm looking for insight and potential solutions to the freezing at idle because I do need to use this as a work device too.
EDIT: I swapped out the drive the OS is on, and am now actively waiting to...
Hopefully someone can help, because I'm at an absolute loss.
PC worked flawlessly for about a year before experiencing this problem, no changes to build
The past month, my pc has been freezing when the cpu is at or near 1% usage.
I can play video games indefinitely, this only occurs when the pc...