artifacts new graphics card

Sordia · March 6, 2015

Ok guys so my brother just got a computer built and everything almost runs smoothly. He keeps telling me that when he trusts to play a game it crashes and gives him some error. But what I see when I mess with his computer is a checkered screen with artifacts( looks almost like the static from and old tv but with more color pixels) so my question is, is the graphic card doa. It is a brand new card. It's a sapphire r9 280 I think I can get the proper specs later from my brother. He is running a

amd 8350 8 core cpu

gigabyte ga-970A-3sdp rev 1.0

Segate 1tb hdd (storage and os)

Os is Windows 7

A Roswell 500w psu if I'm not mistaken

Please let me know if you had this issue before as well and thank you

Kermit · March 6, 2015

I love that card - it would be a shame if something happened to it... anyways have you switched from onboard graphics to your 280? I had that issue with running games with DX 11 - go to device manager and enable the card

can you post in the thread the error code because i may have seen this before