System Hangs When Playing Games

Hello, I just built a K7T Turbo2 based system a week ago with Windows XP Prof. installed. I have no problem running your ordinary programs, like office, music, internet for any period of time. However, when I play games, my computer will randomly crash.
Games such as Shogun: Total War, Counter-strike, Tribes2, Quake3 work for a few minutes, then will crash. I never had a problem with an older computer running the same games.
All the drivers are updated (nvidia 30.82). I tried games w/o Windows update, then again w/ Windows Update. I tried using the safest clock settings for my video card. But none of that prevents the crashes.
I dont kno where the problem lies. Any help would be appreciated!
AMD Athlon 1.0ghz @ 133FSB
512 PC-133 SDRAM
Gainward Gf3 Ti200
IBM 80gb 7200 hd
SBLive! 5.1
OptoRite 40x12x40 cd-r

one thing you forgot to mention was your psu, please check your psu versus those on the stikies (all those numbers on the back with voltage and such, not just "400watt" type stuff) that's my best guess, and you did do a clean install of your os right? I used to format and reinstall windows so much that I forgot I did it and found problems that were never there until I redid all of my settings!

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