MSI 580GTX Lightning XE Problems

I have had my card since before Christmas 2011 and have just started noticing problems. While i was running MSI Kombuster i noticed that at stock speeds that my card is 'GPU Throttling'. i have never noticed this before, but it seems to start happening as soon as Kombuster is started. I there an update i have missed or is this normal?
Thanks
Brett

Quote from: Svet on 18-June-12, 20:53:19
No it will not, it will void warranty only if you broke something during procedure.
And who's to say I wouldn't accidentally break something? What kind of grease would you put on? I have some Arctic Cooling MX-2 available.
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It's not bios problem, i've able to test the same card with the same VBIOS , and there was no any problems.
Also you said it worked fine before
How can it be my card, when 'JohnZS' has the same card, has the same potential problem?
Could it be due to my own personal system?
Enermax Revolution85+ SLI 1050W
Gigabyte X58A-UD5
Intel i7 920 @ 4.0GHz
Corsair H50 with 1xNB M12-P
6GB OCZ Reaper PC3-16000 @ 1528 MHz 7-7-7-20
MSI GTX 580 3GB Lightning XE OC
Asus Xonar HDAV 1.3 Deluxe
OCZ Vertex 2 120GB SSD, Seagate Momentus XT 500GB Hybrid, Western Digital 300GB Green Caviar HDD, Samsung STORY USB 3.0 1.5TB External Drive
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
These are all my bios setting aswell

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