So is this a dead card?

[Quixotic]

Hey LTT, I do believe I have a dead GPU on my hands.

 

I started up Overwatch earlier and while loading into a match my system froze and a checkerboard of blue and red squares appeared all over my monitors. See pic.

 

Upon restarting, my 1070 wasn't recognizing my DisplayPort monitor, but the DVI still worked. I reinstalled the Nvidia drivers and it was detected again, so I figured maybe I was out of the woods. Tried Overwatch again, same thing happens.

 

This time, I can't even get the drivers to install properly and my one working monitor is stuck at 800x600.

 

Give it to me straight, LTT. Is it a goner? 

 

Side note, I did have the card over clocked, but it never gave me issues in the past. No artifacts, no hang ups, nothing. This is pretty out of the blue.

[scottyseng]

2 minutes ago, Quixotic said:

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Yep, it looks to be a goner to me. Something's wrong with the VRAM I'm guessing.

 

Any hopes of being able to RMA it?

[8-Bit Ninja]

If its a 1070 you should be able to rma it no problem

[ybriK]

Pretty ironic that it's a 1070. Sorry but yea RMA it.

[Quixotic]

32 minutes ago, scottyseng said:

Yep, it looks to be a goner to me. Something's wrong with the VRAM I'm guessing.

 

Any hopes of being able to RMA it?

Yeah, hopefully. This would be my second time ever doing a RMA, heh. Hopefully MSI is good with the process.

[captain cactus]

Yup, it's boned. This type of artifacting is usually a sign one of the memory chips gave up the ghost. If it was the GPU core, it would've artifacted and then crashed.

 

RMA it, get a new one.

[faziten]

which 1070 is it?. Just curious. 

[DildorTheDecent]

5 minutes ago, faziten said:

which 1070 is it?. Just curious. 

right here on his profile.