AMD FX-6300 random restarts/ boot cycling

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Sorry in advanced if i'm posting in the wrong forum. Last friday I ordered parts for my new PC and it worked flawlessly through the weekend until this past tuesday it has started randomly restarting and sometimes boot cycling or just freezing. I've done alot of reading all over the place, especially this forum and it seems that my problem could be almost anything.
My PC build is
Corsair CX500 500W
GIGABYTE GA-970A-D3P ATX
AMD FX-6300
Stock Cooler- about to replace it with Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
2x 4GB G.Skill Ripjaws F3-10666CL9D-8GBXL
Seagate Barracuda 1TB ST1000DM003
Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD Burner
EVGA GeForce GTX 750 Ti FTW w/ EVGA ACX Cooling
LIAN LI PC-7B Case with 2 stock 120mm fans and 80mm coolermaster fan
one of the 120mm fans is an intake and the other is an exhaust (80mm fan is exhaust to)
Windows 8.1
Logitech G3
Logitech G600
Labtec Keyboard

I ran prime95 for a little bit to see if a high temperature would cause it to shut down and it didn't my PC starting rising in temperature really fast. I was afraid of it burning something up so I turned it off. I also downloaded memtest86 and burned it to a CD and ran that, however it froze about 5 minutes into the process. I've updated all the drivers I could possibly think of, my bios is up to date. Here are a couple of things that caught my eye and I don't know if it could be a problem- the stock fans on my GPU are default set to 42% so out of curiousity to see if it was a heating issue with my gpu I turned my fans up to 100% the only game I really play is world of warcraft but in game it causes a 20-30 fps drop which made me think that the increase in power to the gpu fans is making my fps suffer, maybe my PSU is not enough? another thing one of my case fans had been running at 1/3 of the speed as the other identical one, I just now unplugged it to see if it was causing problems. I haven't had a restart but the restarts are so random I have no idea if it has fixed my problem. Can a faulty fan cause restarts like this? I listed both mice because i've been having trouble with my G600 so I have to have them both plugged in and I don't know if that's too much power consumption. I've been watching my CPU temp through easytunes hardware monitor however it shows 2 cpu temps, maybe one is my gpu? but in WoW both temps were at 45C and now idling out of game the first temp is showing 11C and the other is 29C. I've spent the past 2 days trying to figure out what is wrong and I am just exhausted trying to figure it out. I also can not get my main power connector to my motherboard to snap into place but it is firmly connected. I just don't know what it could be considering it ran perfect through the weekend then bam, problems :( I'm just really discouraged at this point. Thank you for your time.
I forgot to mention that I don't overclock
 
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im thinking it is either mem or psu...your psu wattage is enough but people have been having issues with the cx series lately. so when mem test froze did you have to hard shutdown? also check your bios and in the hw monitor see if there is a safety threshold and see what the temperature is set at. do this first and post your findings
 
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take an SS of your BIOS. Temperature and voltage. Your symptoms, as bad kitty suggested, seem to reference memory or PSU. I'd try reseating your memory sticks in different slots or running one at a time. If symptoms disappear then memory stick might have gone bad or memory slot on mobo has gone bad. You can run memtest to verify RAM as well.

If you have a spare psu or can borrow one, that would be the best way to verify your hardware. Good luck
 
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ok so I restarted and it started this frenzy of boot cycling and freezing but I finally managed to get the screenshots. After it restarted and froze so many times I took both sticks of ram out and stuck just 1 in the first slot and it started fine. I was running them dual channel. Badkitty, yes I had to hard shutdown during memtest and I looked in the bios and on hw monitor for thresholds. hw monitor is like 40C threshold but I never keep it running and in the bios the fail safes are just warnings and they are disabled. How should I go about trying to figure out if it's my mobo or my sticks? and if I try memtest again should I only have 1 stick in at a time?
 
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I shutdown and put the other stick in the first slot and it booted up fine, the restarts can be random though so I don't know. What do you suggest I do next?
 
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okay so I ran memtest on both sticks, the first stick ran and passed all tests, the 2nd stick froze about a minute and a half in so i restarted ran it again and let it do it's thing I came back to my computer and it had been 50 minutes and it said it had passed all the tests but my pc was froze. It looked like memtest started running again after it had already finished, I fell asleep waiting for it.
 
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As of right now I have both sticks in but in different slots 1 & 3, the dual-channel slots are 2 & 4. I'm going to open my game and play a little and see what happens.
 
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I played my game some, no freezes or restarts then I opened my pc backup and I put the ram back in the dual channel slots and still no freezes. I am clueless as to what to do now. I had reseated the ram in the same slots and had problems. What do I do? ever since I took both ram sticks out and stuck 1 in the first slot, i've not had any sudden restarts, i've only had the 2 freezes in memtest.
 
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They are identical, they came in a pack together. I will check. After my PC being shut down all night I turned my PC on just now and it restarted/recycled/froze a couple of times. I switched the sticks to the non dual channel slots.
 
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I looked at the newegg and it said Voltage: 1.5V and in my bios it says the same thing as the screen shot above Dram voltage: 1.464. Is that the right thing? Why would turning my fans up on my video card cause a FPS loss?
 
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when you ran memtest and you ran each single stick in slot 1 and it froze on the second stick i would say it is that stick of ram that is bad. it may only have one bad module on it and this woud make the problems interminent like you are seeing
 
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after it froze a minute and a half in I restarted and it ran the test again and it completed with no errors but froze again after the test was complete. how did the rest run all the way through without freezing?
 
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It happens when a program tries to get some data from memory when the data is not there

run your windows disk in your odd and use windows repair install if you havent all ready then. since you dont have an ssd run a disk defrag and a disk cleanup and that may fix the issue
 
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I'm seriously starting to think it's a bad memory slot on my mobo, because i just had multiple freezes in a row and I took my memory out and stuck it in my non dual channel slots and i've not had a freeze or restart yet.
 
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