GPU artifact help

[Hell Patrol]

I have made two threads about this in the gpu part of the site to no avail, all information needed is in them so I will simply link them here, though really only for information like specs, as I have solved most of the questions in those threads without help.

i am typing this from a phone for obvious reasons, so grammar wont be great

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/447825-artifacting-help/?p=6004451#entry6004451

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/448068-gpu-artifacts-with-drivers-installed-but-not-without-why/#entry6008180

my real current question is, considering the type of artifacting i have which consists of parts of the screen being black with distorted rows of the missing part of the screen stretching out from them, could that be anyhing but a bad card? ill include details of vital importance from those threads here

my gpu is a r9 270x

i have reinstalled drivers fully, even using ddu to make it a completely clean install

i only have these artifacts with my drivers running so i presume they are broken gpu and not unseated gpu since unseated gpu problems would happen no matter what

i have never overclocked and my temps were 40c when this began happening, a week prior i had checked load temps as being 70c under high load

[WhackingCheese]

Erm could i request a screenshot?

[Opeth747]

Is v-sync turned on? Post screenshots.

Those temps aren't out of the ordinary. 

[Hell Patrol]

Going to get a few pictures of them right now, however I will say v-sync is irrelevant as these artifacts happen on my desktop itself with no games running.

[Hell Patrol]

http://m.imgur.com/58sDL9c