Yes to chipset. Reason I was changing power supply this time was as a cost cutting move as I'm spending so much time and gas etc getting parts. Found a 750 watt corsair power supply for half cost of the one I had in there and corsair is known to be reliable. Also trying not to charge this guy to much. I feel I'd be justified but I know how I'd feel if I were in his position. But the corsair is 750 watt modular, and 62 Amos in a single 12 bolt rail. Should be overrated for that card anyway(I had actually upgraded the power supply to a better unit before anyway without him knowing before I had a bettet handle on what was going on).
Anyway before I read this last part, put power supply and new card back in. Also purchased a new kit of ram for the system. So it has new CPU, new motherboard, new ram, new video card (not open box). Only old items are the case, buy Ray drive and hard drive.
Went in and reset the bios to auto detect new ram, Did not clean install again (though I may to be sure). Reinstalled video drivers, same type of card as before. So far things seem happy. The only hiccup I saw was I loaded up like the crysis demo to test it, and the new card did black screen and lost signal to the monitor for a couple seconds and then recovered. Still curious as to why that is, and is why I may clean install again for good measure. But I intend to push this system hard for a few hours to make sure that it seems to be working fine.
Back when I was running nvidia cards never had these issues. Nor do I with my AMD Radeon card. Wish I could find a deal on one of those but all their high end cards are constantly sold out. I was told people are buying them to do bitmining.
Built another system almost exactly like this one last year with a 7970 and never a hardware issue with it yet knock on wood. I'm convinced at this point any remaining issues will be the video card.
Oh yeah. With changing parts and what not. The power cycling thing has actually stopped.
*Edit* Sorry for any bad grammar out misspellings. It's late and typing on the phone.