Sapphire 7950, crashing and rebooting after three months.

orija7

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Until a week or so back all games had been running just fine on my system.I had been playing mighty hours on Battlefield 3 and managed to finish off CoJ:Gunslinger. I decided to take a break from gaming to catch up on comics. Things got hairy when I tried to play BF3 yesterday, it ran fine for some minutes before the system just rebooted without so much as a BSoD. The same happened with Binary Domain and Crysis 2, and Far Cry 3: BloodDragon rebooted the system at the main menu itself. These are all games that had been running decently a while back. The only one that gave me trouble previously was The Witcher 2, but it stopped crashing after a while.

I checked the GPU temps before and after the crash and they were around 40C. I haven't made any changes in the software.

Here are my system specs:
Sapphire 7950 3GB
Asus P8-Z77M Pro
Corsair 650TX V2
i5 2500k

I would greatly appreciate any help in this matter because as a layman, I'm pissing my pants right now.
 

ayushde

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Did you overclock your gpu recently ???