"@nokoff:
1) Easy, tiger... We're just trying to help..."
- My apologies, I don't mean to be rude or ungrateful, it may just be my frustration with the matter that has gotten the better of me.
I rule out his gfx card because it works fine in my system. So even if it is a combination of factors it is not the gfx card alone.
I've tried extra cooling.
The DX installation I doubt because if it was directx the games wouldn't work/initialize at all most probably. Not work for a little while and then cut out.
If I'm not mistaken Performance Test may use openGL in it's benchmarks, i stand under correction. Otherwise I'm not sure what I would try.
"Also, you didn't mention whether it was a sudden thing or not"
- It was fairly sudden. The entire configuration worked for a period of about 1-2 months. And then it started with the system shutting off for seemingly no apparent reason completely at random (not only in games etc.) and now it seems to have "developed" into this.
