Hi

I recently decided to upgrade to a new computer as I had a friend staying with us who is alot more tech savvy then I am. He chose the items for my PC and I picked the case (Silverstone Lc-17 in case you wondered) I had to wait 3 weeks for the CPUs as they weren't available anywhere in NZ, so once they had arrived he was gone, my flatmate and I put the PC together and it works.

Everything was cool until I tried playing games on it, it has frozen a few times playing games and the CPU/system temperature isnt too high, I installed Easy Tune 5 Pro from my motherboard disk so I could check.

I dont think I'm pushing my hardware to the limits, I'm not overclocking anything and just running WOW on a medium widescreen res. I'm running HDMI.

The PC specs are:
Western Digital Caviar SE 320GB SATA II HDD
4GB Dual Kit DDR2-800 Dual CHannel SD RAM
Gigabyte GA-x38-DS4 Intel X38 ATX motherboard
Palit ATI HD 3850 PCIE 256MB HDMI
Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 2.66GHz 6MB

The PC runs fine if I'm just running a movie or surfing the net, it only seems to have problems when I play a game, which is a big reason I spent as much money as I did.

I'm hoping someone may be able to offer a suggestion or tip for me to try and sort this out before having to resort to paying someone to look at it for me.

Thanks in advance, Zeph