Why Does My PC Keep Freezing At Inopportune Moments?

Over the last couple of weeks, my gaming PC has started occasionally freezing up. It usually happens at the most inopportune moment possible, and always without warning.

It sucks. I have to manually hit the “reset” button and everything. What’s going on? Why does my PC keep freezing at inopportune moments?

It’s just tired, man.

My old CPU is jealous of my new GPU and is acting out.

I’m doing too well in Overwatch and my PC is just trying to even things up.

It’s not actually frozen, it’s just running at a very, very low frame-rate.

Games seem to warn me about running FRAPS these days, so maybe it’s something to do with FRAPS?

It’s distracted by world events, I mean, who can focus on running video games at a time like this

There’s a tiny Mei standing on the motherboard spraying everything with a tiny ice gun.

It learned it from watching my optical drive

My liquid coolant needs a change, like how the oil in a car needs to be changed. (????)

My CPU is overheating, likely due to misapplied thermal paste.

It’s currently full of dead insects, a fact I will discover as I pry open the side panel and an avalanche of musty husks cascades onto the rug.

It’s currently full of live insects, a fact I will never discover because now I’m scared to open my PC.

Whatever it is, it’s probably Windows 10’s fault.