System Lock-up. Is 9600pro the cause?

I have just purchase a bunch of new equipment including an MSI 865PE Neo2 (MS-6728) motherboard. There are a few games causing my system to lock-up and I am pretty sure My ATi 9600pro (ATi Brand) is the culprit. The most interesting is Command and Conquer Generals: Zero Hour. Even at all of the lowest settings and my card set to highest performance mode the system freeze requiring a hard reset. Homeworld 2 is also locking up whenever I try to have better than marginal graphics settings.
I know that the card is the problem (or at least the root cause of it) because I borrowed a 9800pro from my roommate and both games ran like a dream (this also casts doubts on it being a problem with my PSU considering the 9800pro requires a lot more juice). It appears that the only way I can run generals without crashing is by lowering my AGP to 4x. I tried dropping the aperture to 64MB but to no avail.
I have updated my BIOS to the latest (1.5 I believe), I am running Catalyst 3.7 (the latest), latest windows updates, and have the latest drivers for my Intel chipset. I am at a total loss of what to do and I would really appreciate some help here.
System Setup
MSI Neo2-FIS2R 865PE P4 Skt478(MS-6728) motherboard
Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHz w/ 800MHz FSB and HT enabled
ATi Radeon 9600pro 128MB (ATi brand)
1 GB TwinX1024 Corsair XMS3200 Ultra Low Latency Dual Channel Memory
2x Western Digital Caviar Special Edition WD800JB 80GB ATA/100 7200RPM w/8MB buffer (NOT IN RAID)
On-board Audio
300W PSU
System Settings
FSB: 202MHz
Vcore: 1.5250 V
Memory Voltage 2.50 V
AGP Voltage 1.5V
CPU Speed: 2828-2829 MHz

If the freezes and hangs only comes when you are gaming, There are only 3 possibilities:
1. IRQs Conflicts,
2. PSU weak(Mostly),
3. VGA Drivers.
Try checking the above possibilities and see if you manage to get rid of the problem. To my observation of your config of the system, I would dare to say, PSU is the culprit.
All the Best... :D!!!

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When the system locks up I get the spinning beach ball and I can still move the mouse and click and even still access CMD+TAB app switcher, switch spaces and all those things, just applications become non responsive.
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