artifacting help

[Hell Patrol]

FIrst off, I will apologize for poor grammar. I am typing this from a phone and sacrifices will be made.

So basically, I was playing a game and a ton of artifacting began. I closed the game and it continued to my desktop. I reset my pc and it remained, so I reinstalled my gpu drivers by going into device manager, uninstalling, and then running my installer to put them back, with no drivers I had no artifacting, but once back to normal gpu use it was there. i also know its not the wires or monitors, since i also have 2 monitors with two separate video inputs i know that it is neither cable nor monitor.

My temps are cool when it happens as well (48c), my gpu is a sapphire vapor-x manufacture of the Amd r9 270x platform and my gpu is just a couple of months over a year old.

So I ask, is there anything else to check before concluding 100% that it is hardware, did i not reinstall my drivers right? might it be not even gpu related? i want to. conclude by tomorrow, as i am in need of my pc for quite a few things right now and will simply express ship a 970ti if it being broken hardware is the case

edit: starting to get a horrible hunch it might be mobo, the artifacts only happen when something is active on screen

[Jarirx]

What is your computer build? If your getting artifacting it could be due to a damaged core or a bad overclock. WHAT is your Overclock MHZ, Any extra voltage? What motherboard? Age of your card is around 1.25 years? did you ever have high heat, VRM heat? Asic Quality?

[Hell Patrol]

What is your computer build? If your getting artifacting it could be due to a damaged core or a bad overclock. WHAT is your Overclock MHZ, Any extra voltage? What motherboard? Age of your card is around 1.25 years? did you ever have high heat, VRM heat? Asic Quality?

i hate phones, had accidentally submitted an unfinished post when you had replied. however i can say as far as i know my gpu temps have never went critically high, even on the highest end games i play i was checking temps a week or so ago and they didnt go above 65-70c

the motherboard is some gigabyte thing which is the same age as the gpu, will edit when i find it

edit: ga-h81 with an i5-4670 8 gb of ram and a 2 tb 7200rpm hdd is what i remember, i could probably dig out my old build list and receipts and id every part but that is off the top of my head save the mobo

[Hell Patrol]

bumping even though its probably useless, i have two more things to try but i can pretty much confirm its not mobo since it works fine with no drivers, presumably theres a separate little gpu its running on when i have no drivers in

[Jarirx]

Hell Patrol, do you have your bios set for PEG?

[ChrisCross]

FIrst off, I will apologize for poor grammar. I am typing this from a phone and sacrifices will be made.

So basically, I was playing a game and a ton of artifacting began. I closed the game and it continued to my desktop. I reset my pc and it remained, so I reinstalled my gpu drivers by going into device manager, uninstalling, and then running my installer to put them back, with no drivers I had no artifacting, but once back to normal gpu use it was there. i also know its not the wires or monitors, since i also have 2 monitors with two separate video inputs i know that it is neither cable nor monitor.

My temps are cool when it happens as well (48c), my gpu is a sapphire vapor-x manufacture of the Amd r9 270x platform and my gpu is just a couple of months over a year old.

So I ask, is there anything else to check before concluding 100% that it is hardware, did i not reinstall my drivers right? might it be not even gpu related? i want to. conclude by tomorrow, as i am in need of my pc for quite a few things right now and will simply express ship a 970ti if it being broken hardware is the case

edit: starting to get a horrible hunch it might be mobo, the artifacts only happen when something is active on screen

 

well artifacting appears when the gpu is clocked to high (unstable oc). sometimes a driver update destroys an oc due to changed power limits or other changes.

the question is if your gpu is oc'd over the advertised clock speed. if it is than you know what to do. if its not you just got bad luck in the silicon lottery and sapphire's quality control was made with different drivers.

if this is the case send it back to sapphire and ask for a new one

[Hell Patrol]

well artifacting appears when the gpu is clocked to high (unstable oc). sometimes a driver update destroys an oc due to changed power limits or other changes.

the question is if your gpu is oc'd over the advertised clock speed. if it is than you know what to do. if its not you just got bad luck in the silicon lottery and sapphire's quality control was made with different drivers.

if this is the case send it back to sapphire and ask for a new one

 

 

It's not overclocked and it's a year and a half old. So unfortunately both of those are not valid to me.

[Hell Patrol]

Hell Patrol, do you have your bios set for PEG?

 

 

Don't know, I'll check. I don't think it's relevant though, I've been using this card with no problems for the past year and a half on the same bios settings.

[ChrisCross]

It's not overclocked and it's a year and a half old. So unfortunately both of those are not valid to me.

mhm on some cards you have two year warranty.

but try clock it down under the normal clock speed. perhaps try to raise power limits so that the card gets stable. if that doesn't work im out of ideas

[Hell Patrol]

mhm on some cards you have two year warranty.

but try clock it down under the normal clock speed. perhaps try to raise power limits so that the card gets stable. if that doesn't work im out of ideas

Yeah i tried both things but neither worked, its alright i suppose since i ordered a GTX 970 from newegg yesterday. Time for an upgrade I guess.