i'm having trouble with my PC for quite some time now and i'v had enough of it

when I play a game with higher specs then Unreal Tournament GOTY edition, or Red Alert 2, Yuri's revenge, my computer will freezes after about 15 minutes or shorter and ceases to function

the Screen freezes, mouse and Keyboard do not respond to anything, and the only way to turn the damn thing off is by pushing and holding the ON switch until it stops

the strangest thing is that my last computer had the exact same problem, and the specs were only half as high.

my specs

Deluxe Medium Tower Case V48

Motherboard MSI PM8M-V Socket 478

Chipset VIA P4M800 Supports 400, 533 and 800 Mhz Front Side Bus

Intel CPU Celeron 310D ( 2,13 Ghz ), Socket 478, 533Mhz

VGA Integrated Via UniChrome 2D/3D Graphics

Integrated Direct Sound AC'97 Audio

Realtek ALC 655, 5.1 Channels Audio with Codec

Integrated USB 2.0 Controller for maximum 4 USB 2.0

2 Slots 184 Pinn DDR Dimm ( 1 used, 1 free )

1 X DDR 512 PC400 Twinmos in 1 slot

AGP 8X Slot Free

LAN 10/100 Realtek Chipset 8201CL

Compliance with PCI v2.2 and PC99 standard

3 X PCI 2.2 32 Bits PCI Bus slots

An IDE controller on the VT8237R chipset provides IDE
HDD/CD-ROM with PIO, Bus

Master and Ultra DMA133/100/66 operation modes.

1 X Hard Disk Drive 80 GB 7200 RPM Paralel ATA Samsung 2MB Cache

1 X DVD Writer 16 speed Dual Layer Samsung +/- RAM


I'm asking you for suggestions on what i should do.

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I'll have you know that the ATI Radeon X800 series was one of the most powerful video cards on the market in '04.

Edited by Mega X.exe on August 13, 2007 at 11:15:48.

thanks for your support everyone

a friend of mine seem to have found the problem

it was the Wireless Network Adapter i had placed in it

we removed it and 2 days later put in a different one

and thanks for the tips on the Graphics card, i'll look around ebay or anything