It's why I'm still thinking its software issue.
One other thing I noticed on one of the crashes was that the CPU load suddenly started increasing for maybe a second or two before crashing the system. Out of everyone having issues, are we all running Nvidia cards? The game itself never stresses the card near that level, not even 50%. Though again, I just stress tested the card at 100% load for over 4 hours a couple days ago. Already tried that month or so ago and swapped from one of the HDMI ports on the card to the Display port. Electronic failures can be completely unpredictable in how they behave. '.So, if it's hardware, even after 3-4 months, it certainly should have broken fully by now.' Unfortunately, you'll have to substitute components to pinpoint the problem. There are other possibilities such as power supply or motherboard (bad RAM can even cause it), but it's best to start with the most likely suspect. If that doesn't solve the problem, your GPU is very likely dying. I do, in fact, have a video cable with an intermittent internal short that does that exact thing (with the exception of restarting the system - it just randomly makes the monitor go blank).
I would start by trying a different video cable.