Long story short,
I rma'd my gpu (sapphire 7970 ghz edd.), it had a broken fan for about a year,
One day I booted up my PC and could not get a picture (not even the bios screen)
so for the next 3.5 weeks I had to use the integrated GPU on my i7 (3770k)
I noticed a strange issue where every few 10 mins or so one or both of my screens would glitch out a bit (kinda like the flash you get on your second screen when you alt-tab out of a game, or switch from windowed to full screen.)
I just figured it was Intel HD not liking the fact that I had dual monitors, (I am on the latest driver)
and even though it would happen when I was web browsing, I did not think much of it.
anyway, today the replacement card came in. (had some obvious signs of wear)
and I plugged it in, and it had the same issue!
I figured it was DOA, but I went ahead and plugged it into my second slot, and what do you know it worked!
...well at least the PC was able to boot.
I tested it in some games, and in crysis 3 on v.high, after about 8-10 seconds the screen would glitch then both monitors would be covered in stripes, some times green and light green, some times a yellow-ish color, and other times the screen would turn a light blue.
some times it would turn back to normal with the game crashing, and I am informed that my drivers have crashed, other times it would just hang.
I updated to the latest beta drivers, and even tried underclocking my gpu AND memory to 800mhz. and I even tried using an extra cable I had to have my GPU power be connected directly to my power supply ( 750W) no luck.
I also tried shadow of mordor (before today's patch) and I could barely load the world before my GPU would freak out.
normal browsing, and web video play back cause no problems.
Any Ideas how I can fix this,
I'd REALLY not like to go through the RMA process again....