can gpu cause freezing?

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im talking random intermittent hard freezes with no sound/ keyboard functionality that force manual power restart.

random meaning they happen offload too and frequency of once per 1 or 2 days.

ram is fine. right now im testing with onboard graphics and havent had a freeze for 4 days.

gtx 760 windows 10, no recent hardware/ software changes except for razer keyboard and mouse.

btw when taking gpu out to test onboard there was shit load of dust in fans, card usually ran at about 85 degrees onload.

i just thought its weird that it would freeze offload, havent rly seen it freeze onload.

card is about 2 yrs old, no artifacts etc.

hard to diagnose because the freezes are so intermittent, they can happen once every day or not happen for 3 weeks and its a pain not being able to play any games requiring a gpu for so long

done windows 10 hard reinstall, i use nvidia geforce experience to upgrade gpu drivers