by the way, if you run nview monitor in the background and load up a game that locks, monitor cpu, mobo, and gpu temps...you'll see that it peaks exactly when it freezes, but that the peak temp is not critical (between 78-84 from my tests). My guess is there's something in the driver that incorrectly reports critical temps on agp systems with the nf3 chipset, somewhere a temp is getting confused with something else.