GPU overheating cause blue screen of death?

was playing titan quest on my vostro 1400 (specs in sig). as soon as i exit the game after 40min of playing. i got blue screen of death. It has not happend before, the only thing i can think of is that my GPU overheated. am using 174.74 driver and I had try to overclock it, but i reverted back to stock speeds after seeing my temperture hitting high 90C. I ran the game on stock clock speeds and the temperture still reached high 80s degrees. So is over heating the cause of the blue screen. is the driver causing these crazy temps?

 

does it say anything on the BSOD?

Try changing drivers back to 169.09 and see if it still BSOD's

 

Yes, hardware overheating typically causes a bluescreen. (But of course, they're far from the only reason for one)

GPU's can usually stand to be get pretty hot though, so I wouldn't expect anything under 100 to cause problems. If you're overclocking that can cause instability for dozens of other reasons though, so it might be as simple as that. Not overheating, just overclocked too far.

Or it might be a bad driver, or any of a dozen other reasons.