Not GPU Graphic Artifacts?

[Korone609]

So, I have been running my first rig I built for school with a 1080, Ryzen 7 3700X, Asus ROG Strix b550-E gaming motherboard, Thermaltake 850W power supply, and 32GB 3200 G.Skill Ripjaws RAM for about 2 years now. Everything other than the 1080 was brand new when I got it, 1080 was purchased online and immediately benchmarked with good results. Also this was one of two 1080's purchased at the time for SLI, but the cooler on the second card died a few months ago and has not been in my PC as a result. When I first built the PC (running SLI at the time) I initially had some issues with artifacts. After ruling out SLI I assumed it was a VRAM issue and spent weeks trouble shooting before I figured out that turning off Asus's ambiguous "Performance Enhancer" in BIOS fixed the problem. There was a recent power outage in my area and now the artifacts are back, worse than ever, and accompanied with constant crashes and boot loops. Thankfully my renter's insurance was willing to cover it as a power surge, however I would like to sell any operational old parts so I can build a better system. My new GPU and power supply have already arrived, and I used them to test the old motherboard, CPU, and RAM to find that the artifacts were still there. This was on a clean boot drive with freshly installed drivers. This artifact takes the form of horizontal white lines in video playback (as shown on Naruto's face) when things are stable enough to actually get into video playback. This is now accompanied by crashing, freezing, and boot loops. I have even tried running off of a Linux boot drive with no drivers installed and still it persists. If anybody has the slightest clue what is going on I would greatly appreciate the help.

 

TLDR, random white lines, freezing, and crashes. Not GPU or PSU (tested with different parts). Please help

[Vishera]

Maybe a bad display cable,

These little demons can cause lots of issues.

[191x7]

Sounds like memory issues to me.Checked the RAM?

[Korone609]

12 hours ago, 191x7 said:

Sounds like memory issues to me.Checked the RAM?

I did try removing one of my two sticks before I got wrapped up in school work. I think I have XMP enabled. Could it possibly be a compatibility issue there?

Here is the exact RAM I have

https://www.newegg.com/g-skill-32gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/N82E16820232091?Item=N82E16820232091

Edited February 6, 2023 by Korone609
Link to my RAM's product page

[Korone609]

16 hours ago, 191x7 said:

Sounds like memory issues to me.Checked the RAM?

Just tried removing the other stick of RAM and now everything seems to be working fine so far. Thank you so much for the help!