gpu artifacting

[mutantelephant]

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz 

Corsair Vengence Pro - DDR4 -2666 MHZ 16gb

MSI gaming trio RTX 2080 8GB .

650w psu. i know the power supply is low but its been working so far

250 GB ssd

2tb HDD - .

 

I bought a used MSI gaming trio RTX 2080 about 3 months ago and recently in the past 2 or 3 days some applications have been having artifacting. Some games run fine while others crash on start up or are unplayable. all my drivers are up to date. the most common artifacts are just big black rectangles that show up and go away randomly. In some games it shows up as spiritic colors and shapes taking over the screen. This has happened in some games and not the others. also occasionally the screen will freeze, go black and then unfreeze. I was just wondering if there is anything i can do to trouble shoot this more if the card is just dead.  

[Bombastinator]

37 minutes ago, mutantelephant said:

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz 

Corsair Vengence Pro - DDR4 -2666 MHZ 16gb

MSI gaming trio RTX 2080 8GB .

650w psu. i know the power supply is low but its been working so far

250 GB ssd

2tb HDD - .

 

I bought a used MSI gaming trio RTX 2080 about 3 months ago and recently in the past 2 or 3 days some applications have been having artifacting. Some games run fine while others crash on start up or are unplayable. all my drivers are up to date. the most common artifacts are just big black rectangles that show up and go away randomly. In some games it shows up as spiritic colors and shapes taking over the screen. This has happened in some games and not the others. also occasionally the screen will freeze, go black and then unfreeze. I was just wondering if there is anything i can do to trouble shoot this more if the card is just dead.  

Standard troubleshooting move would be try another gpu and see if the problem goes away.  If it does it’s the card.  As to fixing the card if it’s the problem I have very very little.  I’ve seen videos of home remedy fixes for artifacting cards involving ovens, but I’m not very trusting of them.  The normal solution for such things is RMA.  Such a thing might still be possible if you contact the manufacturer directly.  Also might not.