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I tried the individual 2gb sticks of Ram again, and still get the freezing with either one. As for the graphics card, the reason I have the one that I do is because I want to watch blu-ray movies and have full PCM/HD audio capability over HDMI, which many graphics cards claim they can do, but few actually can do. This particular ATI 4550 card CAN do it. I also didn't want to add any more fan noise to my system, as it's noisy enough now. This card has no fan.
A few more questions:
1. If it's a CPU problem, and not overheating, then could it be causing this, or would it just be blue-screening?
I'll have to check more recent information about graphics cards, and see if more are now capable of Full HD PCM audio and 1080p over HDMI.
I appreciate the comments so far. Am not looking forward to dumping tons of cash on parts just trying to figure out what's wrong and what's not.