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Could be overheating causing crash. Make sure you got your cooler seated properly on your CPU. I've had problems before with not getting the thermal compound spread between cpu and cooler correctly and causing a build to be very unstable. I may be way off here but it is the first thing I would look at on a build that is unstable and crashing.
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I am online with the new build now, running tests. It makes it through CHKDSK, PassMark, Memtest86, but then something simple will cause it to restart. Weird.
- You didn't ground something right on the motherboard to chassis, lose screw etc.
- Heat. You didn't apply the thermal paste right, etc.
- Memory. Not seated properly or a bad stick.
If it's heat related, you can find out quickly by using something like Intel Burn Test or Prime95. It should be able to run either of these for 24 hours straight, the first thing I always do on a new build after overclocking to ensure it is stable.
You can test different blends that produce heat or test memory more. Go down to minimum memory config and rotate out until you have tried different sticks, to eliminate bad memory as the problem.
If you've never built a PC before, you probably applied way too much thermal paste. That would create a heat problem. You would know after running IBT, it would crash within a few seconds.
