Artifacts on desktop but not in games

[MrTristian]

Hi LTT forums.

 

so over the past few years ive had my trusty HD7950 and all has been good until recently, in the last year or so ive been getting into overclocking it and increasing the overclock every now and then just to test the limits.

today i encountered a very odd issue. At first my Graphics card was stuck at 500mhz (i previously had it at 1.1ghz) and would not change; however reinstalling afterburner and restarting my pc fixed it. then about 5 or 10 minutes later, after reapplying my overclock, i started to get artifacts on the desktop. I tried lower overclocks but it seems anything over stock causes the artifacts. so i overclocked as normal and tried to play a game (PUBG) and i got no artifacts whatsoever in the game. when i have my gpu on stock speeds and voltages, there are no artifacts on the desktop at all. I've tried switching monitors to my old monitor i had before replacing it with my current one and there was no artifacts in windows on that monitor. so im really confused as to what the problem is  could it be the overclock or possibly just the dual monitor setup? or is my 7950 finally dying? any help would be greatly appreciated!! 

 

[MrTristian]

UPDATE: after disconnecting my second monitor the artifacts have gone away

[zMeul]

it's a issue with the core clock that existed ever since that series of GPUs were 1st launched

my R9 280X suffered from a similar issue, although less pronounced

[MrTristian]

21 hours ago, zMeul said:

it's a issue with the core clock that existed ever since that series of GPUs were 1st launched

my R9 280X suffered from a similar issue, although less pronounced

so is there any fix for it or is it permanently stuck like this?