I've tried searching the forums for info on this, so I'm sorry if I overlooked anthing:
My computer completely shut down when playing the game "Dead Space" and when I turned it back on it would stall at the black screen after the windows logo. After crashing to a white screen in safe mode I thought that the CPU might be overheating and when I opened the case, the CPU heat sink was completely caked with dust. I cleared the dust from the sink and case and i was able to restart windows normally.
I was then able to use the Catalyst Control Center to determine that my Sapphire 3650HD AGP was idling at 80 celsius at stock settings! Perhaps against all good judgement, I then ran rthdribl to see if the card was indeed over heating at the computer again shut down within 30 seconds. The last temp I read was 108 c.
So, my question, if I have diagnosed the cause of the shutdowns correctly, is can there have been damage done to the GPU if I have not overclocked or are these shutdowns the result of a safety measure to prevent the card from burning up?
My computer completely shut down when playing the game "Dead Space" and when I turned it back on it would stall at the black screen after the windows logo. After crashing to a white screen in safe mode I thought that the CPU might be overheating and when I opened the case, the CPU heat sink was completely caked with dust. I cleared the dust from the sink and case and i was able to restart windows normally.
I was then able to use the Catalyst Control Center to determine that my Sapphire 3650HD AGP was idling at 80 celsius at stock settings! Perhaps against all good judgement, I then ran rthdribl to see if the card was indeed over heating at the computer again shut down within 30 seconds. The last temp I read was 108 c.
So, my question, if I have diagnosed the cause of the shutdowns correctly, is can there have been damage done to the GPU if I have not overclocked or are these shutdowns the result of a safety measure to prevent the card from burning up?