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I've done as suggested and removed everything from the case onto a table. With 2fans 12cm blowing and this setup and by underclocking the 8800GTS to 500Mhz, the system hasnt crashed yet. Below are the temperatures during the gameplay. Current Time CPU:(ºC) System:(ºC)...

That was under load, idle time is around 55degress Celcius. From reading other forums this is an acceptable temperature for nvidia 8800GTS cards. It's even run hotter up to 80degrees Celcius without any ill effects.

Oh, and the one thing which always seems to crash my PC in a short time (under 20min) is team fortress 2 with in-game resolution set to 1280x1024. Initially I believed it was just and issue with this game, but then I managed to reproduce the problem with ntune stress test (1 time out of 10...

The temps reported by ntune when my PC shut off were, CPU 38deg C MB 30deg C GPU 67deg C

I hope you can give me some insight in a problem I'm having. The problem is that my PC turns itself off, when doing graphic load intensive things. So far I experienced the problem while playing - team fortress 2 using high gfx settings - running ntune stress test (one time) - running...