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Help! My computer is crashing!

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jakesnake8

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Hey folks, this is my first post, and I'm having a bit of an issue.

First, specs.

CPU - i3 2100 w/ stock cooler
MoBo - Gigabyte Z68A-D3H-B3
RAM - 4x2G GSkill Ripjaws 1600 running at stock speed (no O.C.)
GPU - EVGA GTX 550 Ti
PSU - Corsair HX750
Crucial M4 128g running Linux Mint 17 x64 (Primary)
Samsung 840 EVO 120g running WinXP x64 (rarely used)

So I'm having an issue where my computer will power off and reboot every so often. It seems to be mostly random, but happens most often when I'm watching youtube. Sometimes it will go a week or more without happening, sometimes it happens as soon as I open Firefox. It doesn's seem to matter which OS I boot into, which is strange because the only change I made that I can think of before this started was upgraded from Mint 15 to Mint 17. I've tried it with all configurations and quantities of RAM available to me, through both the GPU and Intel HD graphics. I ran Prime95 blend test for 6 hours with no errors. Unfortunately I do not have an extra PSU to test with, but the corsair support rep assured me that Prime95 should load the PSU at least as much as youtube. I've cleaned and re-done the thermal contacs for both the CPU and GPU to no avail, and at this point I'm thoroughly stumped. Anyone have any ideas?
 
Definitely sounds like a PSU issue. Only cases I've seen that happen usually involve the PSU/RAM. No errors or anything in Event Viewer? At this point it seems narrowed down to PSU/MOBO though and it would suck if it was the MOBO. Without a spare you're kind of between a rock and hard place. I'd go PSU first (easier to return/test).
 
I couldn't find anything that stood out in Event Viewer, a couple of clock and what seemed like IP errors, but not even the error 41 that, as far as I can tell, the OS writes when it has no idea why it crashed, and nothing that really lined up to the moment it crashed. The PSU mfr. is the only one I've called so far, and I'm really reluctant to try to RMA until I know it's the issue, as I don't want to be without the computer for 2 weeks only to still have the error.
 
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