PC freezes during game and then won't show on monitor

I just installed a bunch of games I got for Christmas but still have plenty of hard drive space free. When I was playing one I minimized it to check a tip online and when I got back into it the game kind of stuttered and then froze. When I restarted I could hear the PC startup but the monitor was acting like nothing was plugged in. I tried restarting and nothing showed up still.

After I turned it off for a while and turned it back on it started working again. This same thing has happened a few more times and with different games. If I'm just browsing the internet or watching videos my PC works fine. I tried the built it windows disk check and it says everything is ok.

Any ideas?

Check your cpu and gpu temperatures, and is your power supply up to the task?

List off specs of your system as well so we can have an idea of what you're working with.

Operating System

Windows 10 Pro 64-bit

CPU

Intel Core i7 2600K @ 3.40GHz 103 °F

Sandy Bridge 32nm Technology

RAM

8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 802MHz (11-11-11-28)

Motherboard

Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. Z68P-DS3 (Socket 1155) 76 °F

Graphics

ASUS VS247 (1920x1080@60Hz)

SHARP HDMI (1920x1080@60Hz)

Intel HD Graphics 3000 (Gigabyte)

4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Gigabyte) 87 °F

ForceWare version: 461.09

SLI Disabled

Storage

238GB Samsung SSD 850 PRO 256GB (SATA (SSD)) 76 °F

476GB INTEL SSDSC2KW512G8 (SATA (SSD)) 63 °F

7452GB Seagate ST8000DM004-2CX188 (SATA ) 67 °F

Optical Drives

No optical disk drives detected

Audio

High Definition Audio Device

Still a continuing issue for you?

Here are a few guesses:

1. overheating GPU - have you monitored your temps while gaming?
2. failing GPU - handful of issues can happen here: Video cuts out, artifacting, video freezes
3. failing PSU - issues providing proper load when demanding hardware needs more power (i.e - playing video games)
4. possible bad video cable or monitor - sometimes these things fail. Try swapping out video cable or using a different monitor.