Pc Keeps freezing/crashing while playing Paladins.

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Hello, I'm having some issues while playing Paladins and I've, so far, been unable to solve it. Basically, when I play every few minutes, sometimes more often, the game will simply freeze, if I ctrl-alt-del and press cancel it will unfreeze temporarily but always happens again and again. Occasionally the game will crash entirely forcing me to hard reset my PC. I'm just wondering if anyone has any suggestions on what I can do to find out what is causing the problem. I have no issues at all with any other games, only Paladins. Here are the things I have tried so far to no avail.

1.) Verifying Integrity through steam.
2.) Reinstalling the game
3.) Adding the game to the exception list for AVG and also turning AVG off entirely.
4.) Switching OFF Sli and using only one card.
5.) I changed the "Power Settings" of my minimum CPU usage percentage from 100% down to 50%, the max remains at 100% (I did this as I noticed on Afterburner while playing my CPU was spiking to over 90% usage sometimes).
6.) Monitoring temperatures, all seem perfectly fine.
7.) Removing the game from my HDD and reinstalling on my SSD.

As far as I know all my drivers are up to date, I have recently updated my Geforce Driver which at first seemed to work as I played a whole evening without crashes but the next day they started all over again, no idea why. Here is my spec, any suggestions on what to look for or how to determine what is causing the issue would be greatly appreciated, many people are playing the game with no issues so I would like to join them. I may try lowering the settings this evening once I have put my son down to bed, but I would have thought having the settings too high would just cause low frame rates and not crashing/freezing. Frame rates are really good up until the freeze so I doubt that is the issue but worth a shot.

Specs

GPU - 2x MSI Lightning GTX 780's SLI
PSU - 850W Corsair HX Series
CPU - Intel i5 4670k overclocked to 4.3GHZ
RAM - 8GB of Corsair Vengeance Pro Series @ 2133MHz
OS - Windows 10
 
If it were the Ram wouldn't it do it on all games though? This only happens playing Paladins.

Edit: I just played Fallout 4 for 10mins at 1440p ultra settings and no issues at all. I really don't think it is hardware related.
 
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I genuinely don't think this is a Hardware issue. I play games all the time, I've never had any issues. I've already done a complete run of Heaven, stress tested the CPU and ran Memtest86, I had no issues with any of them or any other game for that matter. Paladins even freezes at the title screen sometimes. It feels like something software related to me, something is causing the game to hang intermittently, I just don't know how to go about figuring out what.
 
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