It was worth the try to do windowed, a new thing happened even though eventually it still did the same thing (complete system freeze). The new thing was it started to freeze for a split second but didn't affect anything. Not sure how else to explain it. No idea if that could help narrow anything down or not. It can't be a hardware issue as I have stated before I have replaced every piece of hardware sense this started, partly because hardware was my first thought, and I needed to upgrade everything.

as for temps, with my old graphics card I was able to run duel monitors (my second monitor is ancient) but with the 580 I just bought I don't have an adapter for my old secondary monitor. anyway nothing was ever overheating during the freezes, which is something I had been looking for. Also no spikes in CPU usage or memory usage using the task manager to monitor that.

I am not overclocking anything, no need with current hardware and current games I play.