I'd say your PSU is definitely taking strain.
A similar thing happened to me years ago, when I got my (then) new 8800GTX. At the time I had an Aopen 530W PSU...which according to websites was sufficient, but in reality it wasn't.
It ran very hot and the fan was going nuts, something it wasn't doing with my older card. My system was stable enough, but logic told me that it wasn't good to have the PSU working that hard, and that was in a non-overclocked system.
Last edited by Rattlehead; 05-13-2011 at 08:30 PM.
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