Strange Artifacting

[Cortez471]

Having some strange issues here. 

I've got a water block installed on my 1080 TI, seems to be installed fine, temps are around 20c idle and 36ish while testing. The issue is i'm seeing strange artifacts when the card is running at stock clocks or underclocked, nothing massive just some random purple pixle flickers. The issue vanishes when i dial in a slightly higher OC than the default at around 1660 mhz to even around 1900mhz.

Temps while running at those clocks seems fine, 36c according to msi after burner and gpuz but the PCB itself is gets rather hot. 

Should i be concerned? is it worth RMAing the card back to gigabyte?

[Sauron]

Try contacting MSI to ask what they think

[Cortez471]

11 minutes ago, Sauron said:

Try contacting MSI to ask what they think

I assume you mean Gigabyte rather than MSI  

[Stormseeker9]

2 minutes ago, Cortez471 said:

I assume you mean Gigabyte rather than MSI  

What waterblock is installed in your GPU? You say the pcb gets hot, maybe certain vram’s or other parts aren’t being cooled correctly.

 

 

[Sauron]

4 minutes ago, Cortez471 said:

I assume you mean Gigabyte rather than MSI  

Yes, don't know why I said MSI

[Cortez471]

i have the Bykski N-GV1080TIG1-X, Full Cover installed. Mind when i say hot, even on the stock cooler the PCB was hot so it's totally possible that's normal

[Cortez471]

Small update, come home from work ran heaven benchmark for a little bit and noticed no more artifacts but what worries me more is the constant gpu boost to 1948mhz  seems high?