[Jason1]

I was having a problem awhile back where games would just completly lock up at random times, making me do a hard boot. I thought for the longest time that it was a heating problem, for sure. I tried numerous things, even bought some arctic silver 5 to use on the fan/CPU, one day I would think I had the problem fixed, the next, BAM, it would happen again. I finally found some post at some forum of someone who had almost the exact same setup as me, and was having the same problems. Anyways, after months of messing with voltages, heating stuff, AGP things, ect, I FINALLY figured out the problem. Apparently even though my MOBO (MSI 648MAX-L) was suppoused to support a certain fast speed of RAM(cant remember the speed exactly), apparently it cant actually do it without problems. So all I had to do was underclock my RAM ever so slightly in BIOS and I havent had one lockup since.

So moral of the story I guess would be...make sure it is indeed a heating problem before you start to mess too much, because it might not be...