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Guild wars and ze x qpack

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Hey all,
I'm new to the boards. I've noticed that while playing guild wars with my rig, after about 10 - 15 mins or so, the computer will stall then suddenly reboot. This also happened with the F.E.A.R demo as well as the Call of Duty demo (not as frequently though, possibly only happened once or twice). However, with HL2 and other source games, I haven't experienced a problem. Anywho, I kind of think that its either a power supply problem or overheating or combination of both.

This is my rig:
AMD Athalon 64 X2 3800+
MSI Geforce 7800GT
Corsair 1 x 1GB
MSI RS480 mobo

Temp while idle: 42 - 45 degree C
Temp under load: 55 - 57 degree C
Aspire XQpack - stock psu (ya i know, luckily haven't been doing too much hardcore gaming)

I've dowloaded all recent drivers but I have not yet tried the hotfix from M$ for dual cores. Any advice would be great. Thanks

Edit: Basically everything is stock. Eg. Stock cpu fan, stock case fans.
 
First guess would be the PSU, they are known for causing restarts and other... headaches.

Second would be, get some better cooling for your CPU, 57 load is... livable but pretty rough.
 
PSU. *Definitely* the PSU. No question at all.

(FWIW, RE: the temperatures - many ATI RS480/Xpress200 motherboards have problems with temperature reporting. The Jetway A210GDMS, for example, reports temps consistently 20C above the actual temperature. I think the MSI RS480 board has the same problem.)
 
Thanks for your quick replies.
Regarding the new PSU, I've got standard length dvd drive and burner. From what I've read elsewhere on the forum, standard size psus will be a tight fit, if it fits at all. Is there any psu that can be reccmended to fit in the x qpack (I don't mind a tight fit, as long as it works)? Also, from what I've read, is the Zalman ZM400B 400W a good psu that will fit or am I confusing this with another Zalman product?
 
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