Update 8/13/2022
Brought my pc today to a technician, turns out my GPU is defective. They swapped GPUs with theirs and installed my GPU on their pc. Games and furmark ran fine with their GPU on my pc, but their games and furmark kept crashing on their pc with my GPU. Best recommendation they...
Yeah haven't tried updating the BIOS. When my PC was built, it booted fine so never thought of updating.
SSDs have less than half on each
980: 69/465GB used
870 QVO: 335/931GB used
Update 08/11/22:
I updated my BIOS and it fixed the freezes and stutters within Windows.
However, running games still have the issue. The extent of freezing depends on the game:
Elden Ring - would load me into the game world, but would freeze and crash within a minute or two.
Apex Legends -...