Using a new Asus Direct CUII Top R9 280X, bought from Scan.co.uk and have found minor artifacts in Far Cry 3 and Battlefield 4 while on stock clocks and voltages (this is a factory overclocked card like most others)
The artifacting in Far Cry 3 has been the same as in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by4QKutmD8U
(When he exits the house you can see a flash of black checks appear on the screen)
After installing the newest AMD Catalyst 13.12 drivers the artifact shown in the video appeared once and has since stopped, so not sure if fixed or not.
In Battlefield 4, I have once noticed flashing black polygons while indoors on Dawnbreaker. I have not found any other artifacts since yesterday, where I found flashing transparent pixels inside a small mosaic like box on the bottom right of the screen, ingame and on the menu screen.
Artifacting has not appeared anywhere else apart from these two games which suggests the GPU could be fine. Also, the artifacts i've been seeing in BF4 are very irregular and tend to start about half an hour ingame on BF4.
I have had HW Monitor running while playing and I can assure you that the graphics card has not been overheating as the max temp read as 76C after playing.
So is this a defunct card that should be replaced (taking into consideration that this card came installed in a well tested prebuilt system from Scan.co.uk)? or is this possibly a driver issue or game issue?
The PSU is a Corsair AX760i.
I would appreciate any more questions about the system to help solve this problem before phoning up Scan to issue a replacement..
The artifacting in Far Cry 3 has been the same as in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by4QKutmD8U
(When he exits the house you can see a flash of black checks appear on the screen)
After installing the newest AMD Catalyst 13.12 drivers the artifact shown in the video appeared once and has since stopped, so not sure if fixed or not.
In Battlefield 4, I have once noticed flashing black polygons while indoors on Dawnbreaker. I have not found any other artifacts since yesterday, where I found flashing transparent pixels inside a small mosaic like box on the bottom right of the screen, ingame and on the menu screen.
Artifacting has not appeared anywhere else apart from these two games which suggests the GPU could be fine. Also, the artifacts i've been seeing in BF4 are very irregular and tend to start about half an hour ingame on BF4.
I have had HW Monitor running while playing and I can assure you that the graphics card has not been overheating as the max temp read as 76C after playing.
So is this a defunct card that should be replaced (taking into consideration that this card came installed in a well tested prebuilt system from Scan.co.uk)? or is this possibly a driver issue or game issue?
The PSU is a Corsair AX760i.
I would appreciate any more questions about the system to help solve this problem before phoning up Scan to issue a replacement..
they may play with it for 15 minutes and see thereis nothing and send it back again.. damn country 
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