Performance decrease Unknown reason

[Ali Husain]

I have experienced some performance decreases and I am not sure why, my specs are Geforce GT610, Intel G2030, 6 GB RAM, Gigabyte mobo I have overclocked my graphic card, increased all the values to the max, except for the voltage settings (untouched), I have researched, maybe I have damaged my registery, doubtfully damaged my GPU, and maybe damaged my CPU, I have not gotten any of the symptoms of a melted GPU except for performance decrease (unless my graphic card is damaged, and my PC has automatically changed it to the default HD graphics - doubt that cos I deleted my previous drivers) Please help, If you can just tell me hot to identify If I have damaged my hardware or how to test if it is damaged or not, I would not mind reformatting my computer to fix, but my family's info is also stored on this computer
Thanks, Ali

 

[Ali Husain]

Nevermind, I switched my BIOS settings back to turbo, changed my powerpln to turbo and .... VOILA!!! Performance is back to normal, it seems that when tou set your power settings to extreme it reduces performance signififcantly