John Canfield
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I built this box (Gigabyte mobo) about Jan 2011 for the coach, I do video and picture editing, so I like a traditional desktop for that task. About two months ago this box would suddenly and without any warning shut down - just like you pulled the plug. That and once in a while I would get the blue screen of death. This gradually built in frequency to where it was intolerable and I made an attempt to fix it. I have almost an identical build for my tower in the house so I tried different memory - no joy. Tried a new power supply - no joy. Then I decided it was time to send the guts to recycling and I ordered a new board/ram/cpu.
I've had great luck with Asus, so I'm going back to them with a mid-range P8Z77-V board (Z77 chipset.) Intel i5-3570K cpu, and Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1866 ram. Parts arive tomorrow so hopefully I'll be truckin' along soon after. The last shutdown was right in the middle of saving a 6 minute video, hope I can recover that project.
I've had great luck with Asus, so I'm going back to them with a mid-range P8Z77-V board (Z77 chipset.) Intel i5-3570K cpu, and Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1866 ram. Parts arive tomorrow so hopefully I'll be truckin' along soon after. The last shutdown was right in the middle of saving a 6 minute video, hope I can recover that project.