Graphic card is dying? How to check graphic card health?

[ninoaoe]

I recently tried to overcklock my GTX 570. After playing Thief ,the screen blacked out and i had to do a restart.This happens everytime with Thief and now i see it happens after playing Dead Space as well for a few minutes.
I think i have damaged the graphic card and i wanted to check that. Is there any way? Except benchmarks wich my card seems to do just fine

Thanks a lot!

 

[ninoaoe]

[strike]i can't underclock i think. Afterburner and Evga precision won't let me underclock[/strike]

wrong ok i will try

 

[chris987]

why wouldnt it? sliding the core clock to the left at minimum point is the gpu's default mhz?

 

[chris987]

ok

 

[ninoaoe]

ok

I read in some forums that this GPU should be working on lower speeds or on higher voltage..
So right now i am trying higher voltage.
Generaly it crashed really often but the good thing is that it gives me the mesasge nvidia driver failed and has been reset...So i don't have to restart. But 2 times it gave me a BSOD.
You insist on underclocking? Is it better?

 

[chris987]

you got a new psu, get a new gpu and that will be the end of it!!!!! why are you testing thing anyway.??????there has been some time now and still you havent really detemineded the cause of the problem.!

 

[ninoaoe]

you got a new psu, get a new gpu and that will be the end of it!!!!! why are you testing thing anyway.??????there has been some time now and still you havent really detemineded the cause of the problem.!

If i had the money i would buy you a computer as well 😛 Thing is that i believe that this can be solved!
Anyway thank you very much for your time and patience my friend!

 

[chris987]

you are welcome. if you dont mind, i would really like to know what was the fault in your system!!thnx

 

[ninoaoe]

Underclocking seems to stabilize the performance.. I was at 600 for more than 2 hours and it crashed.. Now I'm even lower and it's still working.. As you said it might be wearing out