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Artifacts on GPU?

Enbern

Enbern

Enbern

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Hey everyone,

Just finished putting together my new rig. Inside it there's a brand new Sapphire R9 280x Toxic.

So it seemed to be running fine, the only game I've managed to get installed so far is Battlefield 4.

After playing it for about 5 minutes, I noticed artifacts popping up on my second monitor, so I shut the game down and had a look on my main desktop and there were a few artifacts popping up there too.

I restarted the rig and they seem to have gone, but I was a bit worried about it so I ran OCCT and FurMark to check. After running OCCT for 20 minutes and FurMark for 10 minutes, no artifacts are showing up at all, and using GPU-Z to keep an eye on the temps they were way higher than Battlefield 4 were taking it.

Could this be an issue with BF4? I've had a read online and it seems a few people are having this problem.

I'm just curious wether it's worth RMA'ing the card even though it's only been out the box for 6 hours, or if it might just be the fact that BF4 is a bit crap.

Any advice is welcome, this is the first time I've ever had video artifacts show up before.

Thanks a lot in advance.
 
I've just tried it with Payday 2.

It's a different colour and frequency, but I'm still getting artifacts on the screen.

It can't be drivers because I've only just downloaded the latest drivers.

RMA time?
 
I'm not going to run it now. I'm not too happy with it to be honest, it's a brand new card and it's got artifacts running on it already. This is the first video card that I've ever had this problem with.
 
It's averaging about 60 degrees whilst playing games. Could it have anything to do with the fact that this card is quite heavily factory overclocked?
 
Ok. I'm quite new to having "higher end" equipment in my PC, I've never owned an overclocked card before and as I said previously this has never happened to a card I've owned before.

I read a review on this card before purchasing it and it said in the review that this card runs fast compared to other 280x's.
 
Enbern said:
Ok. I'm quite new to having "higher end" equipment in my PC, I've never owned an overclocked card before and as I said previously this has never happened to a card I've owned before.

I read a review on this card before purchasing it and it said in the review that this card runs fast compared to other 280x's.
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Fast is subjective, i ran my 7970 at 1250-1300/1750 (280x is a 7970 rebrand btw).
 
I imagine the review meant fast in comparison to the "non-OC" versions of the card being sold.

Any idea on a fix for this or would it be best to just contact Overclockers?
 
No, I've tried it with about 5 games total now including BF4 and after about 5 minutes it seems to happen with every game. It persists on the desktop after I close the game also.
 
Just wanted to update;

I've just removed the graphics card and tried it with my old card, an nvidia 460, and there are absolutely no artifacts whatsoever so I believe that eliminates RAM or Mobo problems.

I've done some calculations and I would think my PSU is only drawing around 450-500w of power at the top end, and my PSU is rated at 700w so that eliminates the PSU.

This leads me to believe that it MUST be a fault on the GPU. RMA time.

Thanks again for the help everyone.
 
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