Is my GPU damaged? And how do I check it?

[Guest]

Hello everyone.

Is there a way to check if my GPU is damaged? Cause it feels like in some games I've been getting less FPS than when I bought the card (which was about 5 months ago). I've read somewhere that when your GPU is damaged, it doesn't affect your fps, but games won't load textures, characters and what not. I'm not very experienced in this so I don't know whether it's true or not. I also got a second monitor a month ago (1440p), and since I got it, my gpu temperature went to as high as 79 degrees in games like World of Warcraft, which scared the crap out of me. Idle temp went from 33 to 37, and my GPU runs at 99% in all games I'm playing now, while it ran at like 60% before. I don't know if it's damaged, or if the new monitor forces it to perform at it's maximum potential. I've never had my GPU go up to 79 degrees on my old 1080p monitor, so I'm really worried.

Anyway, any kind of help is much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

[ghettogamer]

try running furmark after you clean you gpu and case , probably just need your heat sink cleaned up for any clogs,

 

[DRagor]

So you went from 1080p to 1440p and surprised your card works harder now? It's absolutely normal that both GPU usage and temps go up if you play on higher resolution. Running 2 monitors adds up too, if only a bit (unless you use secondary monitor for game too).
Also, 79 C is not unusual temp for most GPUs under heavy load.

 

[Guest]

try running furmark after you clean you gpu and case , probably just need your heat sink cleaned up for any clogs,

Just ran some kind of "burn-in" test and here are my results.

http://imgur.com/a/OJZOA

Hope everything's alright.