7900 gs problem again

okay so i bought and installed my new 600W Thermaltake PSU and i installed my new geforce 7900 gs (new one i was sent by EVGA when i sent out the one i burned for having insuffucient power supply)

what i was doing was, checking through the video card menu and saw the "monitor temperatures , which said i needed to download Ntune or something like that, so i googled around and looked for a good temp monitoring program, and i stumbled upon a nvida forums topic where people stated it was better to get Rivatuner instead of Ntune ,so i followed the guilde and set three profiles to set fan speed to 100% if temp passed 65 C , 80% if it goes past 55 C , and 60% if its past 55 , and to shutdown pc if it passed 82 C ( didnt know the actual Temp the card could take)

so my problem is i was playing WoW again (like last time), and my card settings (on desktop and all that , were at quality (how it was when i installed) , but i set my game ones to max (figuring as how it says my setup is way past those required of WoW ) , and what happened after several hours was my pc Shut off twice, and after the 2nd shutdown i left it off and let it cool for the night, and havent used it since .

my questions are :

any idea if my card may be overheating again?

does anyone know the burnout temperature this card can handle?

did i choose a bad PSU , and or would it be a good idea to return it and get a better one?

also a friend on wow reccomended putting some arctic silver or something on the videocard chip and put the heatsink back on , saying that some manufacturers use cheap glue and it wears off after couple months ( note , i havent done this and dont know if i should since im not going with taking things apart)

thanks in advance any help is appreciated.

P.S : think my gpu idle temp was around 53-56C and while playing WoW 60-66ish C (not sure if it went past that when it shutdown but mightve been)

 

Initially I thought your card was overheating, but when you posted that it was running at less than 66c, the only thing I can think of is the possibility that the program your using isn't entirely compatible with your card, which may be why ntune is recommended? Maybe you should give ntune a shot? Anyway, sorry I couldnt' be more help, good luck!

 

yea it was running at low temps below 65 (60+ is only on games) and yea the program said something about "not compatible with your driver" , so im gonna uninstall that and install Ntune and see how that goes, thanks, do you think that might fix it?

 

well now my monitor wont pick up the video card (unless i connect it onto integrated graphics) so i got no idea whats going on now

 

any ideas? someone on rivatuner forums told me it sounds like my card died, but i told them it doesnt smell like burn or have physical signs of burns on it, plus when i connect it the fan goes on and everything, the only problem is the "no input signal"

 

hi, have you got PC doctor for windows, if so run a check on your card, it will let you no of any errors, ie memory, direct draw etc,

 

can i check that even if i dont connect the monitor to the video card?

 

ok so i got it to work, now the problem i get now is every couple minutes i get "no input signal" once again, what i did to get the card to work was go into the bios and change video display to "PCI-E" as it was at PCI before,

edit : i ran pc doctor test on my card and it passes all the tests / including on stress tests, also my pc hasnt turned off since i connected the power adapter that was included with the card / left side of the case open, not sure if that has anything to do with it but ill keep updated

 

sigh, i read the whole thread to the bottom to finally discover the issue is with a pci-e card. would be helpful to state that right off the bat. i'm tryin to collect info on 7900gs agp, as its probably one of the most abandoned cards ive read about.