Is my GPU damaged?

[GmodLover86]

I recently just finished overclocking my GTX 960 specifically for Mirror's Edge Catalyst which is the first time overclocking ANYTHING but I had a video guide telling me how to overclock properly and not just settings for the 960 itself because I know the same GPU's aren't made exactly the same. So I was increasing the base clock by increments of 10 and when I hit 80, the Unigine Heaven Benchmark froze and my GPU stopped responding I guess cause the message went away too fast to read. When I saw it happen I lowered the base clock and Unigine unfroze and the fps was in the 20s. I restarted the benchmark and completed the overclock then went in to the Sniper Elite V2 benchmark and my fps went from 46.4 to 53.2 which is AMAZING or WAS amazing. After that I started up Mirror's Edge Catalyst and the frames were definitely better but still kinda wack for me so I didn't play it and went to Sleeping Dogs. Now this is where the problem is, Ioaded the game and the settings I had it on used to run at 60 or a little under 60 but after overclocking, the fps is now in the 30s unless I lower anti-aliasing to normal and get 60 again. I'll spare the details for the next two things I did so I ran Sniper Elite V2 Bench again then Mad Max which i get 60 FPS max settings but now both run at a locked frame rate of 25.

IS MY GPU DAMAGED???

PS. Im 17 so I WILL be lazy to do anything SUPER complicated but PLEASE throw ANY solution at me I will greatly appreciate it.

 

[computers_are_freaky]

I highly doubt you damaged your gpu, they have loads of safeguards to prevent damage, I suggest resetting to stock clocks and checking your performance again, also, what where your temps during the frightening test, because if it was in the high 80s it will probably have been thermal throttling. Also, If you OCed the memory too much, that could cause a performance drop, so yeah, reset to stock clocks and test again. If that doesn't work, try reinstalling drivers for your gpu.

 

[GmodLover86]

I highly doubt you damaged your gpu, they have loads of safeguards to prevent damage, I suggest resetting to stock clocks and checking your performance again, also, what where your temps during the frightening test, because if it was in the high 80s it will probably have been thermal throttling. Also, If you OCed the memory too much, that could cause a performance drop, so yeah, reset to stock clocks and test again. If that doesn't work, try reinstalling drivers for your gpu.

I already tried resetting clocks to no avail and my drivers still say there installed but ill try it.
UPDATE: Reinstalling the drivers fixed. Thanks alot man your a real superehero lmao I thought my card was done.

 

[computers_are_freaky]

No prob man, I know how you felt, I'm glad I could lend a hand. Have fun playing Catalyst.