When GPUs artifact

[xFluing]

I have this old Nvidia Quadro FX 3450 card, and a year or two ago, albeit in its original Dell workstation configuration, was fine, it wasn't showing up with anything.

 

However, I recently got a power supply that supports pci-e connectors and decided to test it out in my system with a relatively more modern CPU, miles better than the dual-core Intel the workstation had (I believe it was an E6300), as I believed an Athlon x4 860k would remove any CPU bottleneck issues.

 

The problem here is, even though it sat untouched for a year or two, the GPU is artifacting now (windows did manage to install a generic driver for my current amd gpu before shut down, so it might be that), but I'm getting artifacts even before the system starts up which makes me believe it's a hardware issue, now I have no idea if it's caused by the GPU dying, or because i plugged it in a non-OEM motherboard (can artifacting even be caused by that?)

 

I tried both DVI connectors, and for both I got the same results (the first time I turned it on the artifacting was way worse, with purple dots all over the screen, but it seems to have stabilised to what it looks like in the pic)

 

Regardless, reflowing isn't an option unless I get a heat gun which I haven't looked into just yet, just wondering what could be causing this, and how it could have broken down just by sitting untouched.

[Jurrunio]

Time wears down stuff.

[AnonKraken]

Might be bad caps on the GPU. That can happen over time.

[xFluing]

1 minute ago, VikingGaming said:

Might be bad caps on the GPU. That can happen over time.

I've checked, nothing is swollen.

[Guest Generallee]

1 hour ago, xFluing said:

I've checked, nothing is swollen.

Doesn't mean they're not dead. Also, there are other SMD's that have a finite lifespan.

[Sir of the Watermelons]

i have an old pc with a hd5770 in it and it also has weird artifacts was used for over 7 years before any problems started