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I have a PNY 9600GT (stock: 650/1625/900(1800)) clocked to 720/1800/980. I tested it for about 30 minutes with some Japanese guy's program, can't remember the name...but it's basically a bunch of spheres floating around.
Anyway, I've played Bioshock, Oblivion, and a couple of weak games (Blizzard games), and things run great. In fact, I can notice the extra speed and smoothness.
However, last night, I was playing CS: Source, and after about 30 minutes of playing, I got a weird long pause, and all the textures turned weird, and eventually my comp crashed.
I can't imagine that CS: Source would be that demanding, but now I'm questioning my OC stability. What do you recommend I do to make sure it's stable, and maybe that one game is just glitchy? Should I run that sphere program for a few hours instead of just 30 minutes?
I don't think it's GPU temps...it idles at around 42C and under heavy load, reaches about 60C.

Anyway, I've played Bioshock, Oblivion, and a couple of weak games (Blizzard games), and things run great. In fact, I can notice the extra speed and smoothness.
However, last night, I was playing CS: Source, and after about 30 minutes of playing, I got a weird long pause, and all the textures turned weird, and eventually my comp crashed.
I can't imagine that CS: Source would be that demanding, but now I'm questioning my OC stability. What do you recommend I do to make sure it's stable, and maybe that one game is just glitchy? Should I run that sphere program for a few hours instead of just 30 minutes?
I don't think it's GPU temps...it idles at around 42C and under heavy load, reaches about 60C.