Artifact Issue on Desktop

[Tomahok]

Here is a picture of what my monitor looks like when the issue occurs:

 

 

I have had this issue three times over the last two times. Every time it happened while chrome was open. I already updated my gpu drivers and turned off gpu acceleration in chrome. I have been playing lots of the witcher 2 and did not have this issue while in game, so it does not seem to be due to high temps. 

 

Suspected culprits: 

-Main monitor, the ASUS VG248qe which is known to have problems (My first one was bad and had half the panel in white and black horizontal lines, I rma'd it) 

-GPU, a Sapphire r9 280x toxic (No overclock, first one also rma'd, this is my second)

-Windows 10

 

What it is not:

-Displayport cable (Also happens over HDMI)

 

 

Here is what I know so far:

-Restarting fixes the issue for a while, the issue does not occur in the bios or when selecting an os (I have dual boot)

-It has not happened in any program other than chrome, even while playing game and being 70C. 

-Switching the monitor to hdmi when the issue occurs (It is normally displayport), the issue still occurs, but switching it back to display port seems to fix the issue, but I have only tried this once

-The menus on the monitor look normal when the issue occurs. 

-If I capture the screen when the issue occurs with open broadcastor, the screen looks normal.

 

What I plan to try next:

-When the issue occurs, plug it in via hdmi to my xbox and see if the issue still occurs

 

PLEASE HELP, any thoughts you have please leave them below. My monitor and gpu should still be under warranty, I just have to know which it is.

 

Specs: 

i5 4670k

Asrock z87 extreme4

Rosewill Hive 750w

16gb Gskill RipjawsX 1600mhz

Corsair Air 540

Sapphire Toxic r9 280x

 

[Mug]

Ah good, approaching this from a good perspective. I like to see that.

 

Most people are like "here's what my specs are and some strange pattern comes up on my screen now solve my issue"

[LabRat]

motherboard not providing enough power to components.

 

pull the card. hook monitor to ther board. do your stuff.

 

after you get results, if still negative, reinstall the card and under clock the gpu and the cards ram...... 100 and 50 for starters and keep lowering it until you get possitive results.

 

chrome uses adobe flash player? update it,.

[Tomahok]

motherboard not providing enough power to components.

 

pull the card. hook monitor to ther board. do your stuff.

 

after you get results, if still negative, reinstall the card and under clock the gpu and the cards ram...... 100 and 50 for starters and keep lowering it until you get possitive results.

 

chrome uses adobe flash player? update it,.

I will try plugging it into a laptop with display port when it happens again as it does not happen often enough for me to get fast results. I just recently underclocked my r9 280x to 1000/1500 ( Very Stable at 1150/1650). Thanks for mentioning the part about flash, I did not think of that and will try that now.

[Tomahok]

Ah good, approaching this from a good perspective. I like to see that.

 

Most people are like "here's what my specs are and some strange pattern comes up on my screen now solve my issue"

Thanks for appreciating. I figure if I want help from others I should give as much info as possible as they are doing free work for me   . These kind of problems are extremely frustrating for me because I only get them on my own rig, despite having built 6 or so other computers for family members and they have no major problems (Trust me, they let me know EVERY problem they have).