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Nov 10, 2010, 02:11 AM
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CPU, Motherboard, or Graphics Card??
Long story short I have:
i7 920 D0 Stepping Gigabyte X58A-UD3R Motherboard 2X EVGA GTX460 768MB Graphics Card 3X2GB Crucial Ballistix DDR3-1600 Seagate 320GB SATA HDD Tuniq Extreme 120 Cooler Issue: Random lock-ups with stock clocks on CPU to a point where I can't get it to boot. The GPU is OCd with 800/1600 clocks. The very same GPU's gave me the same symptom on another rig  That rig now has 2 GTX260's and it's running fine. The CPU and RAM were on a X58A-UD7 mobo that I recently sold and they were fine. So is it the CPU, motherboard, or the video card?
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Nov 10, 2010, 02:14 AM
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If you could swap the CPU over to the other rig you could really narrow it down. It's not the GPU's as you ruled those out and it really could be either the CPU or the motherboard at this point.
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Nov 10, 2010, 02:17 AM
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I'm almost positive that it is the motherboard. I won't find out until this Thursday when I start playing with it.
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Nov 10, 2010, 02:30 AM
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Since the symptoms followed the video cards, start with them.
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