Well, I bit the bullet and went out and bought an Antec 350 power supply (SL350) whcih is supposed to be good. Thoguth everyhting was going well, in fact my temp seems to be down (could be unrelated?) b/c after gaming for 1.5-2 hours, it was still ~50 C. Thought everyhting was good, and then BAM in the middle of a game- reboot. I am so frustrated and out of ideas. I could buy a 400 powersupply, but is that really the issue- 350 from Antec should be enough!.

Then I tried replaying soem of the games we played and it kept crashing as I was wathcing the replays saying "The application has encountered a critical error: FATAL ERROR! Program .... war3.exe ...Exception: 0xC000... (ACCESS_VIOLATION) at 001B:150205F0 The instruction at '0x15025f0' referenced memory at '0x...' The memory could not be 'read' Press OK to terminate the application."

So what is that! ? ! I bought my memory from Best Buy. PNY Optima 2100 256MB 2 sticks (it says it is registered memory). Could that be a problem?

I am really struggling to figure out what to do with it from here... What I'm thinking now, unless someone else has other suggestions. Send back Mobo/Proc/vid card/Power supply (300W they sent me)/memory (OCZ 2700 256) then sent me and have them resend me Mobo/Proc/Vid Card. Someone also informed me thy have too small of a fan on the heat sink. So that might acocunt for some of the Proc overheat, but it's not doing that anymore, but if I reorder, I would like to get the right one.

A final wierd symptom (maybe completely unrelated) I did the recent Win XP service pack upgrade... did the IE upgrade.... another symptom is that my IE keeps critical crashing. In fact, I've had to retype this letter 4 times! any thoughts on this one? unrelated?

Any other suggestions?

Thanks a ton!

Steve