I finally got my new rig working after some trouble with usb keyboards and a boot disk failure error which was apparently due to a faulty RAM stick. It's been about 3 days now and I haven't been doing much except some browsing, movie watching and playing assassin's creed which came as a bundle with my graphic's card.

These are my specs:
Case: Gigabyte Aurora 3D
PSU: Gigabyte Odin Pro 1200W
Motherboard: XFX nForce 780i 3-way SLI
Processor: Intel Quad Core Q9300 2.5Ghz 45nm
RAM: Corsair XMS2 2GB DDR2 800Mhz
Graphic's Card: XFX GTX 280 1GB GDDR3 (Standard Edition)
Operating System: Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit OEM
Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 226BW 22"

Everything is running at stock speeds, voltages, etc. I am considering some overclocking but certainly not right now as I am still testing out the system, getting a feel of it and I have just ran into some trouble.



These are the temps. I'm getting. The gigabyte case has 3 120mm fans, one in the front and 2 in the back and a side vent (no fan). The air coming out is cold and the air coming out of the gtx 280's vent's is slightly on the warm side (i don't know exactly how to explain it) when not gaming. As the only game I have right now is Assassin's Creed and the settings are all full, I've placed my heat on next to the back vents of the graphic card and it gets warm but not very.
Also when playing Assassin's Creed, I'm not sure if this is hardware or software related, but it seems that sometimes the shadow's get pixelated around the edges and also the frames further away from the character aren't available but appear as I get closer to them...

I've left my PC on last night because I was downloading some stuff and also to see if it will stay on till the next morning without any problems. Well it did stay on but just around 5 minutes ago, I was watching a movie and suddenly one of the fans inside the case (i don't know which one) starting giving off a loader sound i guess because of higher rpm. Then on the movie there were vertical lines with colors and small pixels. I closed off the movie file and then I noticed the same thing around the mouse cursor.
A few seconds later the screen went blank, I thought that there was something wrong with the monitor so I hit the source button and it began to switch between analog and digital looking for a signal to display but nothing. A couple minutes later the system rebooted on its own and I was asked whether to enter safe mode or start windows normally.

Btw the movie was mission impossible 3 (dvdrip) I was watching it on windows media player.

Should I be concerned about this? And are the temp's displayed in the pic (see link above) good/bad??

Signed: Concerned PC-ist