My newly built PC keeps freezing when I have multiple programs open

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Whenever I try using programs at the same time such as minecraft, mumble skype and google chrome my computer freezes up for a minute or so then comes back telling me that " "program name" has stopped working". This only started happening about 3 days ago and I have had the PC for 3 weeks.

"Note" I have 8gb of ram
 
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Hi,

What program is not responding ?
If it's not games or video and such, I would scan with malware bytes, adwcleaner and roguekiller to look for malware.
If it's games, download coretemp or hwmonitor and msi afterburner to look at the CPU/GPU temps
 
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I checked the build parts link and there was a red bar at the top about incompatibilities of the components there. Checking the message gave "Some AMD 970 chipset motherboards may need a BIOS update prior to using Vishera CPUs."

Since you didn't know that you can't access the BIOS through Windows, I'm guessing you didn't update the BIOS. If you don't know how to do that, take it to a shop or have a friend show you how.
 
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Have you installed any new hardware or software before this problem started? Did anything happen that caused your system to shut down or crash before this problem started? That may have corrupted your Windows.

Perhaps you've had a bad update from MS that is causing some issues. You could try rolling you system back to before 6days ago if a restore point is set, or you could could try updating your drivers, like for your VGA card and others.

To get into the Bios have the system restart and when you see the motherboard splash screen hit the "Delete" Key.
 
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If it's run fine for 3 weeks and this just started, I doubt memory timing, ram voltage, bios updates are the problem. If it needed a bios update, it wouldn't boot. If the ram stuff wasn't right, it would have issues sooner, so lets use some logic and eliminate those.

Could be a driver issue as stated. If windows update did an update for one of your drivers a few days ago, possibly the sound one as mentioned.

If it was heating/PSU/etc, they probably wouldn't be getting program not responding messages, it would either bluescreen or shutdown or freeze.

I would tend to point to either an update a few days ago, or malware viruses.

Program hanging and then coming back usually means something is lagging the system out, not needing a BIOS update or bad RAM timing and either of those things don't start weeks after it's been running.

Try downloading HWmonitor. IT will let you see your temps to rule that out, and also check your task manager to see if your CPU usage is being used up by something in the background.
 
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That link is not working for me.
When I hit next it redirects me to the same page
 
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