Need help? Overheating?

[agneta]

Hi, im having some problems with my system, only when I try to play just about any game thats considered even close to high end graphics. What will happen is my computer will freeze and i'll get a repeating loop of the last 2 seconds of sound that I heard. I have to then manually turn my computer off/on. Can anyone help me? I suspect its a cooling issue because if i let the 30degree weather from outside come from my windows and freeze up my room and i put a floor fan near my case, it runs fine. Anyway, here is the setup. Advice on suggested fans would be much appreciated.

Nvidia 6600GT 128mb AGP
Intel Pent 4 3.0GHZ
800MHZ FSB
1GB RAM
1 120mm fan blowing outward of the back. 1 CPU Fan 1 80mm case fan blowing out on side of case. Any help would be appreciated

ALSO, my ASUS Probe reads the following at IDLE:
CPU TEMP 46C/114F
MB TEMP 31C/87F

 

[kill4killin]

Those temps at idel are perfectly fine. What are the load temps your getting? Usually your problem indicates an unstable overclock due to not enough voltage or RAM being configured incorrectly. However it doesn't appear you are overclocking from what you stated. The only thing I can think it might be would be the following:

1: voltage is to low, upping the voltage in the bios for your processor might help this.
2. For some odd reason your RAM is running to fast and causing instability
3. Your RAM timings are to tight for its liking.
4. Your computer just doesn't like you.

 

[Drinyth]

Smells like a RAM issue to me. I think I actually had that same problem myself previously when I was using generic RAM years ago.

Have you tried running memtest86 on your box to see if you get stable results? Or maybe the voltage settings that kill4killin mentioned as well?