Nothing shows up on monitor. Broken CPU or Video Card?

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MB : Gigabyte Ga-970a-ud3p
CPU: AMD viscera 8-core-fx-8320
PSU: Rosewill RP600V2-S-SL 600W ATX12V v2.01 SLI Ready Power Supply
Video Card: ASUS Radeon HD 4870 DirectX 10.1 EAH4870/2DI/1GD5 1GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card

When I try to boot my computer nothings shows up on the monitor. All the fans spin and it looks like everything is working. My video card has three red LED's that blink twice on boot and when I shut it down. The LED's that blink are D1603, D1602 and D1601. It has been really hot so I think it just overheated and fried. I was wondering if it could possibly be a cpu problem though. I don't see any red lights on the motherboard or hear any beeps so I thought that it should't be a cpu or other any other problem. But I thought that if the video card broke something would show up on screen it would just be all messed up. Could an overheated video card cause no signal at all to the monitor? Any help would be appreciated. Right now I'm thinking of just getting a new video card and seeing if that fixes it.
 
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I'm not sure which beep codes your motherbd uses but since the cpu is getting really hot and this is real simple... turn it on and make sure the cpu fan is working and I'll see what I can find out
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If you don't hear the normal windows startup sound then the motherbd might not be booting up which would cuase the same behavior.
I don't recall that motherbd having a system speaker so you might try connecting one to see if you get the single beep indicating a sccuessfull POST (power on self test) Or maybe get/borrow a PCIe diagnostic card.
 
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Hey thanks for the response. I actually just went out and got a speaker. I'm getting one long and three short beeps which after looking up means Conventional/Extended memory failure. I got that from here http://ddr4motherboard.com/beepcodes/GIGABYTE-GA-970A-UD3P-REV.-1.0
Does that mean its the RAM? I am not getting a single beep. I tried swapping the sticks around and using one at a time and still the same one long three short. When I take the video card out it still does the same one long three short. I've noticed the heatsink on the CPU gets reallllly hot and so the RAM sticks get very hot since they are right next to them. It was 100 deg the other day so could that have caused the ram sticks to overheat and die? The video card still have the three blinking red LED's. It said CPU error is 5 beeps so that means its not that right? Or could it still be the CPU. I am hoping the CPU didn't overheat. Again thanks for helping
 
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