I run a 970 right now. Neither PrecisionX or the Riva Server actually use the Internet in that way. Adobe and other programs check your liscense every so often. Have you tried running Precision X with just a fan profile and default clocks. An unstable overclock could crash the games executable, or the driver crash caused the freeze.

I think  figured it out now, it was all an unstable overclock. (Also, I'm not even using a custom fan profile.) And yeah, the driver did crash a few times and got repaired, so when my machine freezed it was probably cause windows was unable to fix the driver crashing. So thank you, you fixed my problems with the most obvious solution (that I was unable to find myself...  <-me).
I think it's alarming though that you can clock your card too high and still see no graphical bugs until suddenly it just crashes. Or maybe I'm just getting confused because I'm usually not much of an overclocker.
Anyways, thank You for Your help! 

I have done repeated clean installs of PX for my 660Ti SC using Win7 and Win 10 and the fan adjustment refuses to slide up so I can set the fan speed to where it would work for me.
I tell it to stop the auto settings first and it is just frozen at some low speed (usually 30) and I want it closer to 55 and once in a while after 50 tries it finally just jumps up to a faster speed so I X out and then check the speed of the fan and the rest of the info to see if it is actually running at the proper clock speed with GPU-Z but after this many tries over the last 3 years I finally just uninstalled PX and now am going to give 6.0.8 a try.......I see it is now asking for my name and address and even a serial number.....time to make one up again