old pc crashes in games

ineed2upgrade

ineed2upgrade

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my old old old pc seems to be crashing all the time in games and im wondering what part is failing to cause this.the pc is generally my internet machine but have some games on it so decided to give half life 2 a whirl.got about 2 mins in and it just went black screen and then rebooted.on reboot was showing cpu temp as 57 degrees c which i dont think is that high.has done this in games a fair few times now,and doesnt have to be agraphics intensive game for it to do it.

specs are(please dont laugh too loud)

p4 3.0(800fsb)
975p dfi mobo
3200ram(1gb)
80gb eide hdd
9800 pro 128mb

system is about 4 years old

any ideas?
 
it rebooted itself 4 times today when i was just surfing the net which isnt exactly cpu intensive.cleaned out the whole pc about a month ago,redid the cpu hsf and cleaned everything totally.hasnt done it for last 5 hours with pc on ??????grrrr.
i do need to upgrade though as i want to play some more upto date games like fear/crysis ect just dont want to spend lots of money atm.was thinking £500 upgrade of q6600,2gb 6400ram,p5k delux wifi,8800gt 512 and thats around £500.and maybe a 500gb sata hdd.still ona 19" crt on that system so maybe a cheap 22" widescreen.cant spend too mcuh as my car needs 4 new tyres,new discs up front and lots of bushes so thats £1000 and i onyl have £1500 to spend lol
 
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