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As already mentioned by Nutting The Rueful, this more sounds like a hardware issue (besides your GPU as you confirmed it's fine) than an operating system issue, especially if a reinstall of Windows has the issue remain.I can put my graphics card in the Win 7 machine, and no problems.
I can put my Win 7 graphics card, in my Win 10 machine, same problem, I can put my sister's graphics card, in my Win 10 machine, same problem.
If you have an AMD CPU, make sure to update your motherboard BIOS to the latest because numerous AMD stability issues have been fixed over the years through BIOS updates and help stability, especially with RAM.
Otherwise, if you have updated your BIOS, I would be most suspect of your RAM and/or its compatibility with your system as AMD systems are way pickier with RAM than Intel systems, even on their latest platforms. If you are on Intel however, still update your BIOS as fixes and stability issues have been resolved for Intel too.
If your system has XMP/DOCP enabled (which it should to get the most performance), you could try temporarily disabling it in your BIOS and see if your crashes go away. If your crashes do go away, then you at least know that your issue is related to RAM stability, and you can work on figuring out a solution for your RAM stability. If they remain, then the last thing I guess it could be is your drive that has your games on it.
Regarding Nvidia drivers, they should all be stable for all UE games, and the later typically the better, so you get game-ready drivers for newer games. Sometimes a driver does get released that does cause problems, but it would be a widespread issue and typically talked about a lot online and in news articles, and tech YouTubers would mention it in a video (such as recently an Nvidia driver caused random 10% CPU usage, but it was picked up by a bunch of news outlets and some Youtubers talked about it. Nvidia however swiftly released a hotfix driver to fix it)