Thanks fam , you a wavy dude <| sep |> Yeah . Mr . White . Science . <| sep |> Asda ' s ones are 50 p <| sep |>$ 100 credit applied . it ' s on electricity and natural gas . <| sep |> i ' m pming you rn <| sep |> RIP ASAP YAMS <| sep |> Im so fatt right now , <| sep |> Congrats ! I want to become Canadian , too . <| sep |> Snow will be available probably next week . He ' s a 4 star counter tank <| sep |> The easiest way is swapping it out with another CPU that you know is good . What kind of hardware is in your other system ? If it ' s a Skylake chip I ' d try swapping the CPU ' s to opposite boards and see what happens . Personally I ' d rule out any type of grounding or shorting out as some others have suggested . Those types of failures almost always result in immediate power downs and failure to turn back on without resetting the PSU . Since that doesn ' t seem to be happening with your PC I ' d say it ' s highly unlikely anything like that is happening . As I stated earlier I still think it would be a good idea to pull the CPU and inspect the contacts and the pins in the socket . It ' s sounding more and more like something related to the way the CPU is handling the data passing through it from the board . That doesn ' t mean that your CPU is bad but given the way it shut down if the ram is confirmed good I ' d be questioning how reliable that CPU is . FWIW I ' ve had an i 7 6700 k die in a couple days as well that started out with a blue screen . Thankfully I had another z 170 board and a 6600 k to double check everything with or it would have been much harder to diagnose . Also , what kind of ram is in the other PC ? If it ' s ddr 4 I ' d try swapping that to the newer system as well just in case both DIMMs are bad somehow .