System freezes ?weird?

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OK I just got finished putting together my SFF system:

Athlon 64 3200+ Winchester (From my old system)
1 GB Corsair XMS Pro Series PC4000 DDR (From old system)
ECS RS480-M V1.0 mATX mobo
XFX 6800 Ultra PCI-E
200 GB Maxtor SATA HDD
160 GB Maxtor SATA HDD
74 GB Western Digital Raptor SATA HDD
Aspire X-QPack SFF case
Antec NeoPower 480 Watt modular PSU (old)
ZALMAN CNPS7000B-ALCU

Ok.. So whenever I am playing a game for about 5 minutes the system freezes and I have to shut it down. I already tried to reseat the cpu cooler twice because I thought it was a heat issue, but I guess not. Any ideas?

I mean it doesn't make any strange noises like the hard drive failed or anything, and I also thought about the video card. But if it was overheating I should be able to see at least a few abnormalities on the screen whenever it freezes, but there is nothing.
 
What game are you playing? Is it safe to assume that you have done all of your windows updates? Video drivers updates? Bios update?
 
Yep, I updated everything. Funny thing was that last night I ran HL2, Far Cry, GTA: San Andreas, Q3, Ut2k4 just fine. The game I was playing whenever it did this was BF2, but it had never done it before. So I decided to try to run BF2 again last night... it worked perfectly. I am at a loss now. I didn't change anything since the last time it froze... its weird!
 
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