Problems with my sapphire vapor-x 7970 ghz

gloo69

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I was playing bf3 earlier today and everything froze up then I got a message saying "amd display driver has stopped responding and has recovered" it happened again a few hours later and its happened a couple of times before. I've notice that my gpu temps are going up a lot more than before and I've had it for three weeks. I also used furmark today and the temps went up to 72C while before it would go up around 63~65ish. Is there a way I can tell if my gpu is giving out?
 

gloo69

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I've oc'ed it but I put it back to normal speeds as I felt I didn't need the oc and even when playing bf3 on op metro my fps would be 100+ all the time (I play without msaa I can't tell the difference) but right now it was around 60~80 on the first set of mcoms. I also do have the latest drivers. I've also notice some artifacts while on yahoo and youtube.