Freezing caused by gpu overheating?

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TopGun

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I setup two monitors and had Rivatuner and Speedfan on one monitor while running cod4 on the other. With everything at stock with the cpu fan set to "smart fan" My cpu was at 48* ish and my graphics card was at about 72* when my computer froze.

I thought gpu's could take high temperatures? Would it make sense for it to be freezing at 72*? Or is it my cpu?

Thanks
-TopGun

edit: Cod4 froze with the gpu at 51*, Is it possible that "smart fan" could cause freezing, even if temps are fine? I don't seem to get freezing with it disabled, cpu fan is just loud as hell with it off.
 
Are they overclocked?
Turn SmartFan off and see if it freezes and see if other games do it. If so then I think you may have a bad GPU and it is time for an RMA.
 
It's weird because with smart fan on, temps are perfectly fine but my games crash.
With it off they don't...Do you think there might be some conflict or something? Weird as hell, Playing cod4 atm just fine.

-Both cpu and gpu are bone stock.

Edit: Well I thought it was fine, after making this post I alt-tabbed back into cod4 and my computer froze. It's really weird because I've been playing cod4 for the last couple of days fine. Is it possible that my graphics memory or something is overheating? I really didn't want to have the rma the card but if I gotta... :(
 
ok define freeze.

when your computer is froozen hit numlock for me. does the light go on and off?
 
I don't think the light comes on if I hit numlock while it's "frozen", I know for a fact the Caps Lock light doesn't come on when the button's pressed.
 
It's an Antec Earthwatts 380w, If it was the power supply why would I be able to play for a day or two then have issues?
 
I changed "Smart Fan" from Auto to Voltage in the bios and just played through
a half an hour round of cod4 on a 48 person dm server. Kinda nice to see my card
auto controlling it's fan as well, didn't get above 59*, Wonder if that was riva tuner or the cards bios doing that?
 
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