PC resets in games

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my PC keeps crashing (resetting. not just to windows) when entering certain games.

a week ago my pc started crashing while i was playing League of Legends and Morrowind.
both are, to my understanding, pretty easy on resources, (this is a PC that ran Crysis so Morrowind should be a piece of cake).

i've played both games on this PC before and i had no trouble until a week ago.
gradually the crashes got worse up to the point where I'd crash as soon as i enter the game.

the reason this isn't in a software category is that i already re-formatted, reinstalled all the drivers and reinstalled the games.

still crashes.

the strange thing is that i installed some older games (Baldur's Gate 2, for example) and they cause no crashes, so it seems like there is a strain factor.

sry if i'm mistaken and this is a software issue, but this is what makes sense so far.

here are the PC details:
since i'm not sure what these mean exactly, i'll copy everything straight off Sys Prop.
if anything else is required please tell me where to check it :)

Intel Core2 Duo CPU
E8400 @ 3 GHz
3 GHZ, 3.25 GB RAM

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512

i'm running Windows XP Pro (ver 2002) sp3, if that's relevant.

so what is it?
material exhaustion ?
 
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