Artifacts in firefox

[benjii]

I've noticed an increasing amount of artifacts on desktop lately, specifically firefox. It's normally just the odd one here and there, but if I attempt any crypto currency mining it just goes mental

Like so:

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I have a reference MSI 290 at stock. Temperatures are 40~ idle and 80~ at load.

Any ideas?

 

[benjii]

That is a clean install, just reinstalled windows. It was doing it before as well.

 

[benjii]

Try turning hardware acceleration off in firefox.

That didn't work unfortunately.

 

[benjii]

I'd say it's a fault with the GPU, do you have another system you can try the card in to rule out the rest of the hardware?

Good thinking, I'm not with it today. I'll try it in the other system and if it still does the same then I guess I'll RMA it if it does.

Are there still any ref 290's left? What will happen with the replacement?

 

[benjii]

It happens in another system. I am using 14.4. Also, underclocking doesn't help.

I'm wary to RMA it as the problem is only reliably reproduced in firefox with a miner running, desktop and game artifacts are more occasional.