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Whelp, I ordered an ASUS Radeon R7-240 video card. Will run DDU to remove all the NVIDIA stuff, shut down, and remove the Geforce card and install the Asus. Throwing mud at the wall.
Also think I'm noticing (although it just may be coincidence) that the hangs / BSODs may always occur near the top of the hour. I base this on the hangs that happen while I'm actually using my PC and also on the email timestamps when I restart. For instance, when I restarted this morning and open outlook, the last email was 3:58AM. When it resumed downloading emails, the next one was 04:05AM. So the hang happened in that 7 minute window. And just now I was working on my PC and it froze with the clock stopped at 0900. I did scour all the system logs to see if there's any scheduled task that starts on the hour but I found nothing that looked remotely like a smoking gun. Malwarebytes deep scan also comes up clean. Since this started more than 3 weeks ago, if it was some form of malware I would think that it would've been discovered and reported elsewhere by now...