Fried computer and a video card question

[bobcasey330]

Couldn't figure out a better title, apologies.
My computer recently started randomly rebooting and wouldn't stay running for more than a couple minutes, sometimes wouldn't even boot up all the way before restarting itself, and other times just nothing when you hit the power button. Swapped out the PSU, fixed it for a night then right back to what it was the next day, tried running memtest86, but system rebooted while running the test.
Reset the CMOS, nothing, then replaced the CMOS battery for good measure which is when the problem changed. After replacing the battery, my computer no longer has a successful one beep POST, it's giving three short beeps implying RAM error.
So after all that I've given up the ghost since it;s an 8 year old prebuilt anyways and am going to just replace it. I've specced out the computer i want from Cyberpower, but want to make sure that there's no risk of the video card from the current computer,( EVGA GEFORCE GTX970) won't short or burn anything out in the new computer. There didn't seem to be any problems with the display or video out from the video card, but since my IT friend at work agreed it sounds like multiple things may have gotten a surge in the current desktop, I'm petrified of frying a new unit from using my current video card.
Thanks in advance for any advice anyone can share.

 

[SirSub42]

There is no way to tell until everything is said and done with, but I have never experienced problems extending from a video card into the motherboard. Taking into account the system was 8 years old, the 3 POST beeps (RAM error, either a bad stick or a bad slot on the motherboard), my money would be on you will be safe.

Luckily new components come with a warranty, so even in the event all hell breaks loose. You can still make a dead on arrival claim for the RMA.