Flickering pixels during game

[Kendrick]

GPU r9 280x, monitor x193w+

just got witcher 3 but 20 minutes in on the top left there was a patch of pixels that were flickering random things, but took the qualities of other pixels ingame

 

http://imgur.com/NYwqoMV

[Goat]

Could you please send an image?

[Enderman]

thats called artifacting and means your GPU is unstable

[Kendrick]

1 minute ago, Goat said:

Could you please send an image?

yes, in post

[Kendrick]

1 minute ago, Enderman said:

thats called artifacting and means your GPU is unstable

so xfx has a lifetime warranty right?

[Goat]

1 minute ago, Kendrick said:

yes, in post

Did you overclock your gpu? If so, you may have overclocked it too high. Try reducing the overclock and see if that helps.

[Kendrick]

2 minutes ago, Goat said:

Did you overclock your gpu? If so, you may have overclocked it too high. Try reducing the overclock and see if that helps.

never overclocked

[Goat]

1 minute ago, Kendrick said:

never overclocked

Looks like something's wrong with the card. You will need to claim its warranty, if its still valid.

[Kendrick]

1 minute ago, Goat said:

Looks like something's wrong with the card. You will need to claim its warranty, if its still valid.

How to claim?

[Kendrick]

shit. i didnt know it came with warranty lifetime so i didnt claim it within 30 days. Oh well, guess I'll have to live with it....