Computer shutting off everytime I encode vide/uncompress files

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theNoid

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I have my guesses as to what the cause could be but I wanted to pick the [h] brain incase I'm overlooking a few things.

Issue
When encoding video, or uncompressing files my computer just clicks off. My Core2Quad Q6600 is getting hammered through the process.

My Guess
It was either a power issue, or a cooling issue on the CPU.

Steps Taken Thus Far
I've unplugged a few optical drives, and anything else I could to free up power. Additionally I've opened the case to see if cooling may have been an issue.

Neither of these have helped. I have checked my CPU fan it appears to be working just fine so at this point I'm not sure where to turn next w/o spending money to test. Its worth noting, this PC hasn't had any recent hardware or software changes and that I first started noticing the issue out of the blue last week. Its to the point where I simply cannot encode any video, something I've always done w/o problems.

Any ideas where to go next? Like I said, I can replicate the problem everytime when pounding the CPU, but I'm not entirely sure if the CPU is dying or if its power/cooling related. I'm sure someone here has experienced similar issues in their travels.

Help me [H]... you're my own hope.
 
I had a dying motherboard that would do this exact thing. This was back in the day of bad caps.
 
Ok good to know, I may check to see if my model has reported similar issues. At this point its a process of elimination and I'm trying to do so without spending money. Once I have identified the issue, I'll replace the faulty hardware.
 
Run prime95 smallFFTs and log your load temps as read by CoreTemp or RealTemp.

Run memtest overnight.

If both of those pass, run Prime95 blend test for several hours and report results.
 
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