Pc crashing diagnosis

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Right well im thinking my psus starting to die out but dont have a lot of money so trying to make sure i replace the right part lol. Anyway when playing games such as css the pc crashes out after a random period of time, the way it crashes is that the game freezes completely with sound looping or the pc freezes with sound looping but a alt tab will eventually take you back to desktop and then it is fine. Iv tried different ram and hard-drive to make sure it wasnt that but after just checking my 12v rail it runs at 11.78 - 11.84 at standard but seems to drop randomly to 11.58 whilst playing css is this very low ?

My system is as follows:
Asus p5n-e sli
E4300
8800gt
5 fans
dvd rw
320gb baracuda

The psu in question is a hiper 525w
 
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1) has happened with a few other games
2) and can be after a few hrs of play or just 10 minutes is random
3) cpu was overclocked but putting it back to normal makes no difference
4) cooling seems to be fine cpu never goes over 40 n mobo stays around 30
 
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