How to determine if my CPU or Motherboard is bad. Random rebooting (even in BIOS!)

dalan_fsu

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Jul 28, 2016
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I have removed all unnecessary components to eliminate potential causes (graphics card, memory, hard drive) and i also swapped a different psu to determine that my random reboots are either caused by the Motherboard (asus z77 Sabertooth) or the CPU (Intel i7 3770k).

I seem to have reached a brick wall in my troubleshooting, how can i determine which part is at fault without having an extra 1155 socket mobo or cpu laying around? I did try using Intel's UEFI linux based processor diagnostic tool but the frequent reboots make it impossible.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, lay it on me!