Displayport Broken?

[GSTARR]

While playing cs:go at 1440p max settings (actually super-sampled one step up) about 250 fps on a displayport cable my screen started melting at the top, literally looking like liquid  (but didn't pass a certain point, didn't even get close to half way down the monitor) and was flashing colors of all different types and then when i looked up at the sky, it would again get that sort of liquid-y look and the sky would melt into all white, and the telephone wires stayed black. When i got back down to eye-level then flashing colors would resume and only the top of the screen lacked color and was melting

 

I took the cable out and put my dvi cable back in and it works just fine, albeit i liked the colors on the display port better

 

Is my displayport-port (?) broken?

Or is my poor old monitor dying out ;-;

[Daveeede]

Use your dvi cable and change your color setting in Nvidia/AMD's control panel. Did you try a different displayport port on your graphics card and monitor?

[malon]

any cable that starts melting is a bad sight, have you tried a new displaycable?

 

[GSTARR]

Just now, Daveeede said:

Use your dvi cable and change your color setting in Nvidia/AMD's control panel. Did you try a different displayport port on your graphics card and monitor?

I only have that one displayport cable.

[GSTARR]

Just now, malon said:

any cable that starts melting is a bad sight, have you tried a new displaycable?

 

Nope, only have one

[Daveeede]

1 minute ago, GSTARR said:

I only have that one displayport cable.

Then go buy a new displayport cable. I don't think there is a magical solution to your problem if that's what you're looking for  

[GSTARR]

Just now, Daveeede said:

Then go buy a new displayport cable. I don't think there is a magical solution to your problem if that's what you're looking for  

So you're confirming it's the cable ?

[malon]

Just now, GSTARR said:

Nope, only have one

You need a new displayport anyway since the old one lost the battle with all the frames you were generating in csgoand now is pretty much a firehazard at this point, i would suggest getting a new one and see it that new one also starts to melt, i know it sounds like a bad idea but i think it was just a bad cable that for some reason just started to get to hot and not the monitors fault.