Artifacting on start up

Afran

Afran

Afran

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Hey,

I've just booted up my computer and there was some major artifacting going on. My desktop was messed up, everything was jumbled and just artifact squares as if it'd been picked apart piece by piece in microsoft paint. No funky colours though.

I'm not sure how much of the below info could help identify what the issue is.

This is the first time I've seen this and was fixed upon reboot.

The "shapes" were horizontal if that makes any difference.

It won't be due to temperatures, I had just turned it on after it being off for ~9 hours and my card rarely hits 60c the past few weeks.

I've had this system since December 2013

I'm running everything at stock.

Here's my specs:

Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz
Gigabyte Z87-HD3 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150)
Seasonic G series 550w '80 Plus Gold' PSU
Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3
MSI Radeon R9 280X Gaming Edition OC 3072MB

This might be completely irrelevant but in case it's linked, I did have a BSOD 4 days ago and posted that here - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=26846594#post26846594

Thanks for any help, **** like this makes me paranoid. :)
 
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Unsure about bios version wazza. Was updated when I got the system (dec 2013) and not changed since, first time issue occured.

ExRayTed - Not 100% sure honestly, I don't tend to look at the screen when I first boot up (grab a drink etc), but I'm pretty sure the windows logo looked perfectly fine and it began to occur at the flash just before the windows screen (though again, I can't say for sure)
 
Nowadays every factory OC-ed graphic card takes a risk. Arctifacting, hangups - whatever. They sell OC-ed (faster) cards like insane sellers wanted to be better than competition. End-user pays the price.
 
biuro74 said:
Nowadays every factory OC-ed graphic card takes a risk. Arctifacting, hangups - whatever. They sell OC-ed (faster) cards like insane sellers wanted to be better than competition. End-user pays the price.
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agreed... you can get two prebuilt computers from two different companies... exact same specs, but if one gpu is an OC edition and the other isn't, you will pay a lot more the extra 3% in frames... stupid if you ask me... i just buy a standard card and OC if i want too... cheaper and safer
 
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