Broswer freezing

[Plinko]

Backstory: My gaming rig is pretty old. The case and one HDD are a little over 8 years old, I replaced some of the core parts about four years ago and it's time for a new one. I've been saving money for a few months in order to go and buy/build a new one as soon as I can save up enough to get in a good spot for the next few years, but I'm not there yet.

Anyway, the thing is, lately I've had consistent problems with the PC completely freezing up while browsing with Chrome. It happens 3-4 times a night where I have to force the power off and restart it, just reading regular web pages (haven't noticed anything with any type of media or encoding or particular sites). I play games or do work on this thing all the time and have no issues. It's just while surfing.

So, my question is - do I need to accelerate my PC replacement plans? Or is there anything I should do in the short term to stay with the old girl a few more months?
Off the cuff, I am wondering if some of my RAM has gone bad. For now I'm trying to use Firefox again (but it's such a resource hog) to see if it's Chrome specific or something else.

Any ideas?

[Boss Llama]

While I don't have any solutions there (other than to endorse your use of a different browser for a while to troubleshoot), I did have similar experiences the first time I tried using Chrome. It utterly wrecked my PC on a regular basis, freezing, crashing, corrupting, etc. It has some eccentricities to be sure.

[The Spanish Inquisition]

Some people, like myself, had trouble with freezing while browsing and the underlying fix was rolling back the latest Nvidia driver. I'm currently using version 314.22 which is stable.

[Clay Pigeon]

Switch browers, mang.

[Cat Square]

Backstory: My gaming rig is pretty old. The case and one HDD are a little over 8 years old, I replaced some of the core parts about four years ago and it's time for a new one. I've been saving money for a few months in order to go and buy/build a new one as soon as I can save up enough to get in a good spot for the next few years, but I'm not there yet.

Anyway, the thing is, lately I've had consistent problems with the PC completely freezing up while browsing with Chrome. It happens 3-4 times a night where I have to force the power off and restart it, just reading regular web pages (haven't noticed anything with any type of media or encoding or particular sites). I play games or do work on this thing all the time and have no issues. It's just while surfing.

So, my question is - do I need to accelerate my PC replacement plans? Or is there anything I should do in the short term to stay with the old girl a few more months?
Off the cuff, I am wondering if some of my RAM has gone bad. For now I'm trying to use Firefox again (but it's such a resource hog) to see if it's Chrome specific or something else.

Any ideas?

there are a lot of possibilites on this one, memtest86.com has a good ram tester you can try (the easiest way to use it is to just test your sticks with it one at a time). i wouldnt rule out something related to a gpu either, or possibly just a corrupt install of chrome (try reinstalling it if you havent already)