Macbook Pro 2.6ghz i7 2013 system freeze when using Premiere/AME CC 2014

Question

I have a Macbook Pro i7 2.6ghz form late 2013 and I have been experiencing some serious problems with my system freezing while using Premiere Pro and whilst rendering from AME.
I am running the latest version of CC (8.1) on OSX 10.9.5.
GFX card: NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2048 MB
RAM: 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
I have CUDA enabled, I need the performance boost so rendering previews of the CPU is not much of a option for me.
I have experienced this problem since I started running Premiere on my laptop (3 months ago). If I am doing any GPU hungry processes within Premiere or AME the system will freeze, when it freezes nothing will respond and the screen stays frozen, I have to do a manual shut down.
I went as far as replacing the whole laptop with Apple as they put it down to a faulty GFX card, the new one has the same problem which leads me to think that the problem is with how Premiere and AME work with the new Macbook Pro's.
These crashes happen up to three times a day if I'm doing a full day of editing and I have to make sure I don't push the system to hard to avoid it, the crashes don't tend to happen when I am editing 5D footage but they are quite frequent when editing 4k GH4 footage. I am working off multiple hard drives with valuable data which are put at risk when the system crashes. I normally work on a 6 core Mac Pro but next week I'll be pushing my laptop pretty hard with a full week of editing and I'd love to avoid these crashes.
If more info and specs are needed to identify the problem, I'll be happy to provide them.
Cheers, Moja.
ps.
My system just crashed twice today, once while writing this message, I had a project open in Premiere but I wasn't even editing, its currently 30 degrees in Melbourne, one of the hottest days of the year yet, which leads me to believe that the heat is contributing to the GFX card or CPU overloading.

Answer 1

mojareeves1 wrote:
I forgot to add that I have also updated to the latest nvidia card driver.
My music seems to keep playing when the crash occurs which suggests the hard drive and other components are still running fine, its just the GFX card that is crashing.
The GFX card may be a red herring if it still crashes in software mode and with the internal card.  The fact that you have music playing, however, may be a clue.  Programs that can access your audio hardware (like Soundflower) at the same time as Pr have been known to conflict and cause crashes.  Turn off any background audio processes.  Check your system audio settings, as well as Pr's audio and audio hardware settings. If you can, change the source of Pr's Desktop Audio in Preferences>Audio Hardware.  Try changing the ASIO settings.
The next (and most painful) step would be to work your way meticulously through this document:
Troubleshoot system errors, freezes | Mac OS 10.x | Adobe software
The "Re-create Adobe application preferences" step often helps a lot.
Cheers,
Jeff