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Check your temps, and tell me if they break the max before the machine shuts down, also, do you have a spare PSU that you could test the pc on?

I think it is still realistic to purchase a cheese grater mac pro, as long as you do not mind the size, larger power consumption and heat output. I have an early 2012 mac pro that I love, although if you are looking to do any video editing, 3d modeling, or gaming, I would suggest upgrading to a...

Ok, so you all may think me a little crazy when you read this, but I really dont care. Start of story. At my dads house, I have a really nice gaming pc that I use 5 days of the week, it has a i7 3960x, 16GB of 1866 ram, asus rampage extreme motherboard, 256gb ssd, gtx 780ti 3 way sli, all water...

No, you most likely cannot run SteamOS, unless someone makes a port of it. There is no google play store, but you can use the chrome web store, but there are not many good games there. I would not suggest getting a chromebox for gaming.

So, I am looking to upgrade my secondary rig, and I have a choice between selling the 7870 card in it, and buying a newer, more powerful card, or purchasing a second 7870 and crossfire the two. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. I have about 280$ cash to work on.

There are a few possibilities. one possibilities is that it is a fan getting stuck on some piece of gunk somewhere, another is the optical disk drive, wich might spin up for some random reason some time. on final, and the worst case scenario is the hard drive. sadly, it will be almost impossible...

ok, then do that. as long as the connections are the same (ie. sata - sata, ata - ata) you will need to re licince it, so make sure you have the key before you remove it from your old pc.

I would suggest going for the 7870xt, instead. the xt edition is basically a 7950 for just about 20$ more than the 7870. Also FOR GOD SAKES DONT BUY THAT PSU!!!!! your machine will not run on that!! I would suggest at least a cx 500 minimum for that setup. the 450 is really pushing the boundary...