I’m sorry, but I can’t get it to freeze my computer or crash Blender; everything works as it should. (Viewport rendered view, render image and render animation all work normally on my system and my hardware is a lot older than yours…)
Could it be your GPU driver like @me1958424 suggested (you are not using the NOUVEAU driver I hope)?
Try rendering with CPU….
Maybe have a Terminal open with HTOP, to see what is happening when your system freezes…
If your system freezes, that is not a crash, so Blender won’t have written a crash report (which would be gone anyway when you’ve rebooted).
