Keep getting random artifacting, but a restart fixes it, I find it unlikely to be the Gpu?

[OnlyAxolotl]

Having a problem where my screen starts atrirfacting on many different open apps, but only as Im moving my cursor around. For example its not happening right now as Im typing

Happening right now at 55c GPU (65c hotspot) (mem 64c) load 17%

It seems like some sort of windows bug to me.

I also stress tested the VRAM on OCCT with no problems detected 

[Tan3l6]

The GPU is dying.

[OnlyAxolotl]

1 minute ago, Tan3l6 said:

The GPU is dying.

The GPU is fine, in games, benchmarking applications and 3D rendering software, so I dont see how it is

[Tan3l6]

If you say so ... the heavy artifacting is usually a bad sign.
Maybe try undervolting it. Those are my 2 cents.

[Levent]

What card is this? AMD in particular can have issues like this where it can be due to drivers.

[OnlyAxolotl]

Just now, Levent said:

What card is this? AMD in particular can have issues like this where it can be due to drivers.

Its a 3080 Gigabyte OC

Like I said seems like a driver issues the card performs normally and doesn't do it under heavy load so I can only assume its not hardware related 

[OnlyAxolotl]

Whats even MORE weird is that if I record, it happens on the whole screen but only in windows Photo Viewer not in VLC That isn't what was happening when I recorded and it isn't zoomed. My recording is black here

 

[MonkeyBomb]

If you feel it's driver related, run ddu to remove all traces of the current driver and reinstall the latest from nvidia's website.

[OnlyAxolotl]

1 minute ago, Cypher64 said:

If you feel it's driver related, run ddu to remove all traces of the current driver and reinstall the latest from nvidia's website.

Yeah Ill definitely run a ddu, it happens at completely random times in the day. Been on the PC for many hours and nothing and then all of a sudden under normal temps load it starts 

[Levent]

If clean install of drivers or windows doesnt fix it, then I would definitely be suspect of the VRAMs on the card and at that point I can only recommend RMAing the card.

[OnlyAxolotl]

6 minutes ago, Levent said:

If clean install of drivers or windows doesnt fix it, then I would definitely be suspect of the VRAMs on the card and at that point I can only recommend RMAing the card.

I think a clean DDU will do it. I stress tested all the Vrams in OCCT and I use a lot of 3D software and it never happens there

[Levent]

Just now, OnlyAxolotl said:

I think a clean DDU will do it. I stress tested all the Vrams in OCCT and I use a lot of 3D software and it never happens there

I still dont trust OCCTs vram test feature. I would also recommend caution just relying on that.

[DigitalGoat]

55 minutes ago, OnlyAxolotl said:

Having a problem where my screen starts atrirfacting on many different open apps, but only as Im moving my cursor around. For example its not happening right now as Im typing

Happening right now at 55c GPU (65c hotspot) (mem 64c) load 17%

It seems like some sort of windows bug to me.

I also stress tested the VRAM on OCCT with no problems detected 

It would be interesting to see what happens in a different Windows profile and also safe mode, with the same drivers installed. In safe mode the drivers would not be loaded so you may need to figure out how to apply enough load to the VRAM to make a test worth while.

[An0maly_76]

I'm thinking driver or a DRAM issue.

 

AFTERTHOUGHT: Stress tests mean nothing, I have one DIMM dead and the other dying after passing multiple stress tests that led me to return a motherboard for RMA. One DIMM died while the board was being tested, the other is starting to glitch hard and I don't expect it to make it another week.

Edited August 8, 2022 by An0maly_76
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