Well my games are freezing and crashing.

[PARLKUS]

I have all new hardware and updated drivers. I have run hwmonitor and everything is cold while under load. What could be causing games to freeze?

 

[Z1NONLY]

An unstable overclock?

 

[PARLKUS]

An unstable overclock?

I have a r9 280x vapor-x lower than default clock.

 

[PARLKUS]

An unstable overclock?

My cpu clock hasnt been touched.

 

[PARLKUS]

An unstable overclock?

I have these:
Msi Z87-G41 mobo
8 gigs G.skills Sniper ram
I5 4670k
Sapphire R9 280x Vapor-X
Coolermaster 650W Bronze

 

[Z1NONLY]

What about your system RAM and/or the GPU?

 

[PARLKUS]

What about your system RAM and/or the GPU?

well if you look up the card it comes factory overclocked at 1070mhz gpu clock.
1550mhz memory clock.

sapphire r9 280x vapor-x.

 

[Z1NONLY]

I was talking about the ram you installed on your motherboard. Lets clarify....is any part of your rig overclocked?

 

[PARLKUS]

I was talking about the ram you installed on your motherboard. Lets clarify....is any part of your rig overclocked?

no overclocks on that stuff

 

[Z1NONLY]

If *not a single thing in your entire computer* is overclocked (other than your GPU factory overclock)...try underclocking your GPU to reference card specs/speeds.

If that fixes your problem, RMA your graphics card, it's unstable at the clock speeds it was shipped with.

If it doesn't fix the problem the list of suspects grows to include just about everything else. But it still sounds like general instability. (CPU, RAM) (although a PSU that cant keep voltages high enough, could also cause instability if/when voltage "droops" too much.