artifact GPU Artifacting - certain applications crash. Need some help!

[5x5]

2 minutes ago, SHiFT said:

One quick question.. what is the difference between these two cards?

 

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/sapphire-radeon-rx-590-nitro-8192mb-gddr5-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-38r-sp.html?fbclid=IwAR0LxmQPZiFS-X6MT3qmkLCf_4a2VzZlA9B9gaIhVTo97G6UWPEBVlXHEBY

 

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/sapphire-radeon-rx-590-nitro-special-edition-8192mb-gddr5-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-38k-sp.html?fbclid=IwAR0FBSulNLVG7x4biLydLXctNqXUvHcNRPnD4bdMbNRo9yahu1ADwYwAH_w

 

The blue is the "special" edition.. but I see no difference in the performance - or am I blind

There is none - the blue one is some limited edition cooler paint job. Who knows what it's celebrating.

[SHiFT]

1 minute ago, 5x5 said:

There is none - the blue one is some limited edition cooler paint job. Who knows what it's celebrating.

Haha, okay. £200 for that card, free games with it.. 8GB as well at 1560Mhz core clock - seems really good to me for 1080p. This might even last me another 3 years at running games at 1080p on ultra settings.. really tempting. Just everyone is bashing AMD for their drivers.. but NVIDIA is a little too expensive for me rn.

[5x5]

30 minutes ago, SHiFT said:

Haha, okay. £200 for that card, free games with it.. 8GB as well at 1560Mhz core clock - seems really good to me for 1080p. This might even last me another 3 years at running games at 1080p on ultra settings.. really tempting. Just everyone is bashing AMD for their drivers.. but NVIDIA is a little too expensive for me rn.

As an Nvidia users - I have plenty of driver issues myself sooo, trust me, drivers are super buggy on both sides.

[Zando_]

1 minute ago, 5x5 said:

As an Nvidia users - I have plenty of driver issues myself sooo, trust me, drivers are super buggy on both sides.

Nvidia's Shadowplay is far superior to AMD's Relive (doesn't let you set some hotkeys and such and is buggy), but on the driver front they're pretty equal. I'd give AMD the edge due to them including wattman so you don't need Afterburner or something for overclocking. Their UI is much better than the old Nvidia control panel look, and you don't need an account to check for drivers from the utility (you do for Nvidia's GeForce Experience because... reasons or something). 

[5x5]

4 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

Nvidia's Shadowplay is far superior to AMD's Relive (doesn't let you set some hotkeys and such and is buggy), but on the driver front they're pretty equal. I'd give AMD the edge due to them including wattman so you don't need Afterburner or something for overclocking. Their UI is much better than the old Nvidia control panel look, and you don't need an account to check for drivers from the utility (you do for Nvidia's GeForce Experience because... reasons or something). 

Funnily enough, I adamantly refuse to install GFE - it's messed up an OS image twice now when updating. It's just....wow. I'm not the only one btw - googling reveals it's not rare for that to happen.

[SHiFT]

12 hours ago, Zando Bob said:

Nvidia's Shadowplay is far superior to AMD's Relive (doesn't let you set some hotkeys and such and is buggy), but on the driver front they're pretty equal. I'd give AMD the edge due to them including wattman so you don't need Afterburner or something for overclocking. Their UI is much better than the old Nvidia control panel look, and you don't need an account to check for drivers from the utility (you do for Nvidia's GeForce Experience because... reasons or something). 

 

12 hours ago, 5x5 said:

Funnily enough, I adamantly refuse to install GFE - it's messed up an OS image twice now when updating. It's just....wow. I'm not the only one btw - googling reveals it's not rare for that to happen.

Hmm, I see. So the card I showed above might be the one I'll get I guess.  As in, THIS. 

[SHiFT]

On 8/14/2019 at 7:04 PM, 5x5 said:

Funnily enough, I adamantly refuse to install GFE - it's messed up an OS image twice now when updating. It's just....wow. I'm not the only one btw - googling reveals it's not rare for that to happen.

After R6 Siege crashes, this is the kind of stuff I see.

 

Can you confirm that this is indeed a GPU issue and it's just.. unusable for gaming?

[5x5]

It sure looks like it.

[SHiFT]

Just now, 5x5 said:

It sure looks like it.

Yeah - ordered the card anyways. It's unusable, I can only browse of play games like SW:The Old Republic which isnt GPU heavy at all - more so CPU - and that is all. Has the power and usability of an intergrated Intel HD chip sadly.. sad that it came to this. But - least I upgrade a bit. Also found RAM in my office that I nicked - so 16GB it is  

[5x5]

40 minutes ago, SHiFT said:

Yeah - ordered the card anyways. It's unusable, I can only browse of play games like SW:The Old Republic which isnt GPU heavy at all - more so CPU - and that is all. Has the power and usability of an intergrated Intel HD chip sadly.. sad that it came to this. But - least I upgrade a bit. Also found RAM in my office that I nicked - so 16GB it is  

That's usually how it goes. First it's unstable under high load. Then it becomes fucky under low load. After that even browsing the web becomes impossible and finally all you can do with the card is stare at a BIOS screen. It's an old GPU, though, over 5 years now. It's time has come it seems.

[SHiFT]

Just now, 5x5 said:

That's usually how it goes. First it's unstable under high load. Then it becomes fucky under low load. After that even browsing the web becomes impossible and finally all you can do with the card is stare at a BIOS screen. It's an old GPU, though, over 5 years now. It's time has come it seems.

Yeah man - thanks for your help and time. I was out of the hardware game for long so I'm back to a noob status.

 

I'll just play Hearthstone all weekend  - I also found a used i7-4790 and a QUADRO card in old office.. so I can shift those and my GPU will be even cheaper haha.