Hey, I was just playing Oblivion and my pc crashed all of a sudden. I was a little worried that something fried but my pc booted fine. Soon as it booted I got an error saying "To protect your hardware from potential damage or causing a potential system lockup, the graphics processor has lowered its performance to a level that allows continued safe operations."
I have a 6800 GS GPU, 9npa+ Ultra mobo, Socket 939 Opteron 144 cpu overclocked to 2.4 GHz, Corsair 1GB ram running at PC3200 speeds. My psu is either 400 watts or 450(prolly is 400 but I could be wrong). Right now, the clock speeds of my GPU were lowered below stock(I originally had stock speeds). Along with that all, i noticed lately that my GPU temperatures have been going up to 92 degrees celcius while playing Oblivion for about 2 hours straight. The idle temperature of my GPU is 54-55 degrees celcius. That's an increase of almost 38 degrees celcius at full load! What step should I take next? Its a videocard from eVGA so their warranty policy is pretty good. I don't think I have ever overclocked my 6800GS before but where could the problem be? Thanks guys.
I have a 6800 GS GPU, 9npa+ Ultra mobo, Socket 939 Opteron 144 cpu overclocked to 2.4 GHz, Corsair 1GB ram running at PC3200 speeds. My psu is either 400 watts or 450(prolly is 400 but I could be wrong). Right now, the clock speeds of my GPU were lowered below stock(I originally had stock speeds). Along with that all, i noticed lately that my GPU temperatures have been going up to 92 degrees celcius while playing Oblivion for about 2 hours straight. The idle temperature of my GPU is 54-55 degrees celcius. That's an increase of almost 38 degrees celcius at full load! What step should I take next? Its a videocard from eVGA so their warranty policy is pretty good. I don't think I have ever overclocked my 6800GS before but where could the problem be? Thanks guys.
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