artifacting GPU Artifacting

[AlexRadac]

Hey guys!

Recently my PC started to act weirdly. While playing ffxiv everything blocked, the display looked like the image I've attached and the sound coming from from the speakers was weird, repetitive and scary (only way I can describe it). After 1 or 2 minutes my PC restarted and got the beautiful blue screen. This started happening more often but only in games and once on startup. Another weird thing that happened twice was that on boot-up, there would be no image on screen and it seemed like the PC was trying repetitively to connect to the monitor, or maybe the opposite. I have searched the web and realized that my GPU ( Gigabyte RTX 2060 Windforce OC) was artifacting. In CAM I saw that the highest Clock speed reached by the GPU was 1980 Mhz and in a GPU-Z recording, 1965 Mhz. I rolled-back the drivers, reinstalled them, installed the newest NVIDIA drivers and used MSI Afterburner to reduce the Clock Speed, but nothing prevented this. So, do you guys have any idea what I can do to hopefully fix this?

 

 

Date        , GPU Clock [MHz] , Memory Clock [MHz] , GPU Temperature [°C] , Fan Speed (%) [%] , Fan Speed (RPM) [RPM] , Memory Used [MB] , GPU Load [%] , Memory Controller Load [%] , Video Engine Load [%] , Bus Interface Load [%] , Power Consumption (W) [W] , Power Consumption (%) [% TDP] , PerfCap Reason [] , VDDC [V] , CPU Temperature [°C] , System Memory Used [MB] ,
2019-10-05 17:09:17 ,        1965.0   ,           1750.2   ,               55.0   ,              68   ,                1415   ,           1249   ,         53   ,                       20   ,                   0   ,                    1   ,                    95.3   ,                        56.1   ,               4   , 1.0370   ,               49.1   ,                  4264   ,
 

[Skiiwee29]

Dead VRAM, time to RMA.