Frequent computer freezes even after reinstall!

[PresidentDylan5]

I am being driven insane by this. After a lot of troubleshooting that just led me in false directions, I still haven't got anywhere. My computer has completely random freezes. It ranges from time to time how often it is. Just now it lasts a few minutes so I can't do a resource scan.
I have completely reinstalled the operating system.
Resource scan showed everything fine.
I think it is hardware related, perhaps my AMD CPU. I am having some heating problems (massive lag spikes) which I pretty much got rid of with a hair dryer (was getting freezes as well) but was still planning on redoing paste and stuff soon. Maybe it's not a coincidence that these two issues arose at once? The lag spikes appeared before the freezes, which would make sense. However, HW monitor (in the brief time before a freeze just now) said my proccesor was at 30C!
A friend told me that a common windows problem is Ram, and another (who basically copied my build has the same ram and motherboard. He was getting blue screens and stuff which he managed to fix through voltage settings.
I was playing Titanfall beta all afternoon today with no problems whatsoever but (this could be coincidence) when my friend called me on Skype IT CAME BACK. I reinstalled OS for no reason. It was the refresh feature on windows 8 by the way.

Someone please help me!

Fx 8350
GTX 770
ASRock 970 extreme 4
(Ram has really strange name but it is corsair veangance)
SSD vertex 3
Caviar blue 500gb
Black 1tb
Zalman z9 plus

 

[PresidentDylan5]

Right I have now replaced the CPU and motherboard and the issues are completely fixed. Not certain which one it was, but I think it was the CPU since it had overheated so much. This time around I will get an aftermarket cooler! Thanks for all the help both of you, my brain probably would've exploded by now without you!

 

[gumbykid]

My guess is the motherboard. CPUs very rarely go bad. You'd have to be running it at 75C for a long time (months) to cause real damage. Motherboards commonly go bad. It could also be because of the incompatibility in the list I provided.

Glad it's finally fixed.

 

[nostall]

Well, I am finally able to spend some time on the Forums. The medical issues (my health is just fine, it's others) have finally started to settle down.
I am very happy that the problem is finally solved and you are up and running. The new power supply should last for quite awhile, so it wasn't an actual waste of money.
AND your final solution is the second one I have seen in the last week that may have been a bad CPU. Here's a link to another Tom's thread that I tried to help with; turned out he had a bad CPU.
I have a reply therein, and as for me it says it all. It IS REALLY rare for a CPU to go bad, but here we are with two solutions that involved the CPU.
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1998833/ram-bios-4080-windows-bit-months.html#13263265

Good job trouble shooting the issue. Game on and Game hard.
Gumbykid: Thanks for all your help; you truly hung in there with a lot of patience.

See you both here on Tom's