System crashes and reboots while gaming on 7950

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 some heavy stuff like BF3, Crysis 2 and Dishonored without any problems. It was after I took a break off gaming for a month or so that things got hairy yesterday. When playing games like Blacklist and Saints Row 4, the system just reboots, no BSODs and no glitching. Even games that used to run fine, like Shogun 2, are crashing now.

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

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

Drivers: 13.4 System crashes and reboots while gaming on 7950


It's kind a weird that this has actually happened to me earlier too. Some months back, games started crashing the system when I started gaming after a break of month or so. The issue resolved itself in a couple of days so I didn't give it much heed then.