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When it comes to Nvidia driver for Linux, my suggestion is - always stick to the version you find stable enough.
In my case, Last Nvidia 580 driver version works smoothly on my Desktop. Earlier I was on 550.
On a side note, faulty RAM often cause system freeze/crash. You might want to run memtest from boot menu as well.