Strange Artifacts

[Noctus]

Playing Dota2 when out the blue both my screens get these strange artifacts (in attached pic) then go black. Turn my pc off and back on and it seems my integrated gfx are now being used.

Via Google found a post stating to upgrade drivers and restart pc (done both) yet still on integrated with those artifacts. Though card still powers on (least the fans are working) when I turn the pc on.

Is my card kaput?

One of my screens on the integrated gfx:

[Riv]

If the card you are speaking of is the 570 listed in your bio, it could possibly be a dead card, especially if you where really pushing it with a crazy OC.  But before you draw any conclusions see if you can maybe move the card into a different PCI slot, or try a much older driver that for sure worked.

[Noctus]

That's the thing, I haven't updated the driver in a while. There's been no indication of it heating up without my knowledge (I have a temp sensor on my desk) and the only OC is its factory OC...

Guess I'll try moving it and uninstalling the drivers etc when I've had a sleep....

Was hoping I'd last till 10xx cards...

[Noctus]

Anyone else know about this problem I'm having?

[0wN3r]

Well, as far as I know 570 OCes bad, so it might have generally 'wear out' even with proper cooling. I would try using some software to UNDERclock the core & memory speed, to see if the artifacts result then. If not, that might be just the time that card already was used, and you might generally think of buying another card and keep underclocking this one when artifacts happen to the underclocked version