I'm not sure where you're getting the idea "all these funds" were spent on a relic. There has really been no money spent since the initial build. I built this PC years ago. The only upgrade/"purchase" was the RX 580. Granted, it produces a lot of heat, but as I stated, it isn't what I plan to go with long term. With the availability of graphics cards these days, it is what was available to test whether the video card was causing the issues. The build is indeed aging, and I became tired of waiting for a 1070/1080 TI at a reasonable price. The RX 580 was purchased new, but from an acquaintance. I never planned to keep it. Unless I unexpectedly fell in love with it, it was always planned to be sold back at full price-minus-I-buy-dinner to my friend (who mines) in a couple of weeks when I'm done with it. The only other replacement part was the Neutron, which was purchased ages ago when initially troubleshooting.
As I said, the H50 was modded into a push/pull config with two 1st PC Corp 252 CFM fans, so its a little better than stock. I also didn't think it necessary to go into excruciating detail since this doesn't seem to be a heat issue, but the case has been modded for more airflow. I probably should have been more clear since a couple people have mentioned it. I liked the LUXA, but I was worried about the heat issue - if it had seemed heat was an issue I would have returned it initially. I closely monitored all components, and all were well within reasonable temp ranges aside from the processor, which runs equally hot even when run open-air with a house fan blowing into the chassis and an Archon SBE X2 fan on it. I also raised the case about 2 inches by adding new new case feet and rigged two Corsair AS120 fans to the bottom of the case, which already had airflow slots to provide additional cooling. I also added an Antec exhaust fan that takes up two of the vacant PCI slots in the back of the case. There wasn't much in the way of decent HTPC cases at the time of this build, but obviously next time around I'll go with something different. Also, at the time, the H50 was among the best rated coolers recommended for the 920, and that was without the additions. Its not as if I bought these components last week.
My real mistakes, it seems, was not RMA'ing the MB and/or processor initially. I let it sit around and settled for playing games on my PS3 and watching 720p video on it so it wouldn't crash. Now that there are new games I would like to play and 4K games/video, it has aged and the video card has turned out not to be the issue. Stupidity on my part, sure. I don't think I was asking for all that much, though, just a little help troubleshooting before I scrap the system and build my new Z390/1080 TI/960 Pro HTPC...which I would be doing anyway, just not as soon. I was never going to put any additional money into this unless a 1070/1080 TI came along at a reasonable price (or I unexpectedly loved the 580) that I could save for the next build.
