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typographie, on 21 May 2013 - 09:43 PM, said:

One thing that I ran into during my years of servicing torpedoes and computers was random failures due to "flex" and/or "thermal" faults. Theses are faults that show up when a part it flexed or when it changes temperature. The most common source of the problem would be bad (or "cold") solder joints, but sometimes it was a physical crack in a component.
In a cold solder joint, the connection may look normal (shiny) or it may look dull, but the main thing is that there may be no actual solder connection between the parts - say, a wire and the circuit board - and the parts are essentially just touching each other. Corrosion can get in and make matters worse.
Anyway, as the parts go from ambient temperature to operating temperature, they can shrink, or expand or flex relative to each other and this can lead to a loss of electrical connection, often in a very random manner.
We would often track down thermals by using "freeze mist" to cool suspected components, This can also basically be done by using a "duster" upside down.

Long story, short - heat can affect components even within normal operating temperatures, so temperature readings often show nothing unusual.

Thanks for the thanks.

If running the game with the -repair or -image command doesn't fix it, then I'd try replacing the video card - it could be bad RAM on the GTX-670.

Given all you've tried already, it doesn't sound like there's any easy answer. My guess is that you have a faulty component - and it could be almost anything. The top candidates are PSU and motherboard - they have the most solder joints and components, that could go bad. Unfortunately, it could be a long process of substitution to find the problem.

In answer to your question, yes, those parts can be carried over to a new rig. However, you wouldn't want to carry over a GTX-650 - in fact, you don't want a GTX-650 at all. A GTX-650 Ti maybe, but the plain 650 sucks (compared to an HD7750 or HD7770).
For reference:
http://www.tomshardw...eview,3107.html