veiledmuffin

Here's my new rig. It's mostly new parts. PSU/Drives are from my previous build.

Yes.

PvP plz

Sweet

I had similar problems playing through my first time. My party would be doing fine, then I would get ambushed and get completely dominated and not know why.
I've put in 200+ hours and recently beat DA:O on nightmare, so here's my advice:

As some have said, swap your Dog for Morrigan. Two mages makes the game a lot easier, especially the first time through.
Make sure that both of your mages have Heal (Group Heal wouldn't hurt either).
With two mages, you have access to more CC. Winter's Grasp, Crushing Prison and the entire Glyph line are all really good.

For tactics, I always set my Mages to Ranged and Melee characters to Aggressive.
Set up your tactics to utilize focus fire and always target enemy mages first.

If you're playing on the PC, and want to mess around with different abilities/specs, you can always use this respec mod: http://social.bioware.com/project/469

I'm not sure if this was mentioned before, but if you type something in the search that's really long, it covers up the "options" text. 

Firefox 3.6 
 
EDIT: The same happens with Firefox 4 on a different computer.
EDIT #2: Seems to have been fixed. :)

I really liked FEAR on the 360 when I played it, not sure how the PS3 version is though.

WoW 
Pokemon Blue 
Halo 3
Dragon Age Origins 
Final Fantasy X 

1. Dragon Age: Origins - 134 Hours 
2. Plants vs Zombies - 62 Hours 
3. Team Fortress 2 - 48 Hours 
4. Torchlight - 24 Hours 
5. Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War 2 - 20 Hours