i tried clearing all the display drivers and only installing the newest nvidia drivers and still made the same problems and also tried reseating the card. im not sure if my psu might be the issue,m its a EVGA 600w, ive got a amd 6300 cpu overclocked to 4Ghz. theres not much else that uses much power. im leaning towards the gpu being defected. thanks for the help so far.