My motherboard died suddenly a few weeks ago. I was sure it was the mobo because I paid to have all the parts tested. I decided to buy a new mobo, a Gigabyte EP45C-UD3R, a new 750 watt corsair PS (my old PS barely cut it), a new 250 GB HD to do a fresh Vista install and make getting old files easier, and a wireless-n card because my old ASUS mobo had built in wireless.
I recycled my old CPU, an Intel Core 2 Duo 6600, 2GB DDR 800 RAM, Sound Blaster Fatal1ty sound card, and nVidia 8600 GTS.
The install went off without a hitch but quickly turned sour. I got many recurring BSoDs and finally did a second fresh Vista install before realizing I didn't update the chipset drivers, oopsy!
Everything worked fine after I installed new drivers for everything, the sound card was especially a pain because all I would get was static. Seriously I got a BSoD every 10 min before I updated every single driver. It was extremely frustrating!
Finally everything idled smoothly. I reinstalled all my old software etc. and did my routine checks for malware.
Surfing the web, e-mail, and other light duty applications worked fine, but as soon as I had several browser windows open, watching flash video, or playing games I would get a non-descript BSoD. It seems that when my comp is taxed it crashes.
I've done kapersky's online virus scan and use Malwarebyte's anti malware, they both come up clean. I've run CHKDSK and memtest86 and everything seems fine. When I reboot after I have a crash, Windows says I have a hardware problem that it cant narrow down. Something with the mobo, PCU, RAM, or video card.
The last crash dump didn't seem to record anything unfortunately so I don't know where to start.
I anxiously await your help.
Thanks in advance!

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