upgraded to gtx 970 now i have a headache (help)

[maddoggaming15]

My PC specs

i5 4690k

z97 mobo

8gb 1866 ram DDR3

850 watt power supply

GTX 970 4GB

 

So i upgraded from a r9 280x to a gtx 970. Long story short i installed the 970 was excited forget to untill the 280x drivers before hand anyways i broke windows 10 wouldnt boot. After that i formated using the media creation tool by microsoft,then preceded to installed geforce experience from nvidia the driver that installed was 364.51 i know there's known issue with this driver . Okay so my issue i was having is black boxes would be around my desktop icons and when i hightlighted anything black boxes would pop up on my desktop screen. Next i googled my issue what i came up with was either a driver or video card issue i DDU 364 and went back to 362 but a new problem raised now when i scrolled with my mouse i was getting white box effect on the bottom of my screen. so i went back DDU into safemode uninstalled drivers and reinstalled 364 again havent had a issue yet but its only be maybe a hour i didnt notice that black box issue untill a few hours into the first installed. so im losted and puzzled what this issue is from and how to fix it. my 970 is only about 10hours old maybe a bad card?

[maddoggaming15]

forgot to mention i probably installed and uninstalled 364 and 362 about 5 times each before i got something that seems to be working so far.

[Belgarathian]

Have you tried to see if you can create issues in other applications? Firestrike for instance? 

[maddoggaming15]

Just now, Belgarathian said:

Have you tried to see if you can create issues in other applications? Firestrike for instance? 

i have not i can do that however.

[Belgarathian]

Just now, maddoggaming15 said:

i have not i can do that however.

Give it a go, that'll help determine the issue. - Process of elimination. 

[maddoggaming15]

Just now, Belgarathian said:

Give it a go, that'll help determine the issue. - Process of elimination. 

okay sounds good ill do that now

[maddoggaming15]

valley benchmark fine ?

[LokiFire]

I had driver problems too on my GTX 580 with latest drivers, rolled back to 358.xx

[KRC1023]

What 850 watt power supply is it?

[maddoggaming15]

2 minutes ago, KRC1023 said:

What 850 watt power supply is it?

thermaltake black widow 80+ bronze its a few years dont know exact model

[Ramrod126]

I had tons of problems with 362 and 364 drivers (mostly with Fallout 4). I rolled back to 361.91 and it has been fine since.

[KRC1023]

Hm ok...

Can you try making a full install of a linux distro with easily installable nvidia drivers (Solus comes to mind) on a usb drive to test?

 

 

[maddoggaming15]

Unigine Valley Benchmark 1.0

FPS:	105.6
Score:	4420
Min FPS:	36.7
Max FPS:	180.4

System

Platform:	Windows 8 (build 9200) 64bit
CPU model:	Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4690K CPU @ 3.50GHz (3491MHz) x4
GPU model:	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 10.18.13.6451 (4095MB) x1

Settings

Render:	Direct3D11
Mode:	1920x1080 fullscreen
Preset	Custom
Quality	Ultra

[maddoggaming15]

ndivia supported called me back and told me to isntall new updates for my mobo