Random hardlocks while gaming

It's happening again, one reason I moved from *buntu was the random hardlocks, well I'm getting them again, 3 times last night while playing, and only happens when I'm playing, mainly WoW
So any clue as to what is causing this? The locks are so bad all I can do is force power off and restart, what logs should I be checking etc,?

z0phi3l wrote:
Nope, cleaning out my system did no good
I'm going to try turning off Compiz and seeing if that helps any like I've heard
hmm, well what was the last thing u changed before u started having lock-ups. Did u do a system upgrade? check the logs around the time it started and u will have a good lead to follow.

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