Graphics Card going bad?

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Scottk517

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Hi guys and gals,

i have a 512mb 9800 GT. I belive it is going bad. With speed fan, it says my ambient no load temp was 59-60 celcius. The most intense thing i regularly do is play world of warcraft. When I loaded the game the temp would rise to 75-80 celcius and then lock up the computer with red lines all over the screen. When i surf the web, no problems at all. So i take the card out and take it apart, maybe not the brightest idea, but when i put it back in, the card works, i have video on my monitor, but it is like on default monitor and 800x600 resolution. But the nvidia control panel does not show a recognized nvidia gpu. Speedfan does not show a gpu temp now... my voltage readings are

VCC3v- 3.46v
Vcore - .94v
vram - .13v
vchipset - .04v
+5v - 5.26v
+12v - 13.02
vcc1.5v - 0.04
vsb3v - 3.39
vbat - 3.33v

I don't know if that info helps, but looks like I am getting a new video card and hopefully not a new PSU.

My rig is I7 MSI x85 pro 6g ram, no problems at all until the other night. The rig has been running good for 18 months.

Thanks guys

Scott