K7t Turbo2 Shutdown Temperature Issue

Hello All, noob question:
I use my computer mostly for playing games.  I play Warcraft III, Dungeon Siege, and JediKnight2 mostly and while I am playing sometime or another my computer will reboot in the middle of the game.  
From reading the manual under the PCHealth section I assume this has to do with the Shutdown Temperature setting reaching a certain point and rebooting my computer to save it from frying my components.  I have a standard case with two fans in it, thermal grease between the cpu and the heatsync but other than that I have limited knowledge of anything else that may contribute to this problem.  
The first thing I tried was replacing the video card which stopped Warcraft III from rebooting but caused both Dungeon Siege and JediKnight2 to now reboot.  I changed the resolution in Warcraft III to a higher resolution and now it reboots too.  This confirms to me that it is a heat issue.  What should I buy or do to alleviate my problem?  Thank you so much for all your help in advance.
My components are:
AMD Athlon 1800XP
MSI K7T Turbo2 Motherboard
512MB PC133 Ram
Volcano 5 Heatsync
Nvidia Geforce2 MX 400 64MB & Riva TNT2 Turbo 32MB
Seagate 20GB 7200 RPM hard drive
Texas Instruments IEEE 1394 Controller Card
Lite-on 32x10x40 CDRW
Memorex 48x CD-ROM
2 fans
Viewsonic 19" E790 Display
and a partridge in a pear tree

Hi!
Well, it can be a heat problem, it could be a problem with your PSU also ...
About heat: from the list of components, I do not see a clear reason why there should be a heat problem - it all looks pretty normal to me  :]  Do you have any idea about the temperatures in your system? Temps can be readin BIOS, but more convenient with the program MBM 5 which can be downloaded at http://www.livewiredev.com.
I think (not sure, though) that temperatures of the video card can be read with a program called rivatuner - it can be downloaded here.
About the PSU: can you tell a little about brand & specs?
Hans

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