Lock ups when idle

I've got my system set as below and I never have problems playing games, I can run prime95 for hours and any benchmark I can throw at it. But on occasion, in the middle of the night when I'm fast asleep, the entire system will freeze.
There really isn't any way for me to reproduce what happens, but my thought was it might have something to do with having the vcore set to HW in BIOS. This setting seems to lead to a kind of fluctuating voltage varying between 1.6 and 1.7. So I set the vcore to 1.65 in the BIOS (speedfan and MBM5 report it as 1.7, I wonder why that happens), any opinions on this being a fix for these nocturnal freezes.

No BSODS, no sleep/hibernate or what have you, power set to always on.
I should point out that this isn't necessarily a big problem. More of a curiosity. Its happened maybe 3 times in the last 5 months.
So it doesn't really effect anything. It's just a weird thing that everything runs so well but at almost at the opposite of what you'd expect, when the system is doing nothing and the temperatures are at the coolest they ever get in a 24 hour period, the computer locks up.
Now the only thing I can think of that would run at this time of day would be the System Restore automatic restore point creation, maybe that's it. Everything's cold and getting thrown into the system restore causes problems.
Thanks for the help but I can probably live with this mystery. Maybe changing the VCore voltage will keep this from happening again.
Right now more importantly I'm trying to figure out what's wrong with my CD burner. Probaly has something to do with it being a 6 year old 4x job that should have been retired a couple of years ago.

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[edit2] Also, I converted the RAID0 to a single in case that matters.
[edit4] I finished scrubbing and copied my "journalctl -b" output to pastebin. I can't see any thing that might raise any flags. http://pastebin.com/WXpbpTuc
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