How to diagnose why PC is freezing in 3D Application?

How to diagnose why PC is freezing in 3D Application? Recently I'm having some problems with my PC. I I'm running applications that depends on 3D graphics card it freezes after some time or throws a blue screen (mostly it just freezes). It's hard to tell when this problems happens but it usually starts 10-30 minutes after starting the game.
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bert [Entry]

"One of the things many people think of as last resort is the power supply.

Your power supply has an output of say 550Watt, but thats only to handle peaks. At an average the output is usually a lot lower.

Having said this, my first guess would still be Graphics Card and second the power supply.
I thought NVidia graphic cards show their temperature in Extended Graphics Settings (although I'm not sure they all do).

Usually RAM is also one of the main blue-screen trigger hardware parts.
I had the behavior you described once when I bought a new module. This would be the easiest check. Try different settings (first 2x1GB, then 2x2GB, only 1x2GB)."

bert [Entry]

"Can you run Bluescreenview and tell us the details of what the crash actually says.

If it is directly related to graphics and as you said you had this on XP as well, I am going to say it could be a dodgy graphics card - could even be faulty memory on the graphics card.

It is also worth a try to do a standard memory test on your machine to rule that out, but if you are only having problems in 3d applications, I would say more likely to be graphics related."