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Same man. In all the years of IT i've encountered issues, but this, this generally perplexed me lmao.

At idle about 40c, under load anywhere between 60-72c - depends on load. Under AIDA64, temps where between 70-72c on GPU when stressing that.

i'll run that in the background for ya, and get back to you.
Six minutes into it, rock solid stable, zero issues so far.
 

Yes. I've already tested at stock, same issue continued. GPU was overclocked too, tested that at stock as well - i'll put that at the bottom of the post now, forgot to mention that  

Can't do much without a budget - what ballpark money wise are you looking at, and where are you located?

Is the GSKILL ram lighting up whatsoever? Should light up if it’s getting power. I’ve had a similar issue, and i found it was a dead stick - i had the same exact sticks. Take one stick out, test slot by slot with that stick, and then try the same with the other stick. @RMcNasty

Oki- ended up going through everything and making sure all wires went where they shoulda and such. Ended up testing the RAM slot-by-slot and stick by stick, one of the sticks refused to boot the system altogether regardless of slot and caused the same behaviour I was experiencing beforehand, the other stick worked fine. Will be RMA’ing both sticks and getting mah money back.

could save some money by using Microsoft’s Windows Creation Tool, pretty easy process to set that up