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MSI Radeon R9 270X artifacting

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April 18, 2014 3:42:58 AM

Hello. I have recently adquire this card and is showing me artifacts on screen since the firts day while gaming. Some times they show up since I start playing, some times they don't. It is pretty random. Inicially I thought it was a drivers issue, so I reinstalled windows from scratch and updated to the lastest Catalyst drivers (13.12), but nothing changed. The artifacts some times look like chessboards, other times I get like stretched/smeared graphics, and weird shapes of graphical geometry usually in gray/black colors, but also multi colored ones.

My system specs are:
-AMD FX 6300
-Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 motherboard
-8GB of RAM
-XFX 550W power supply
-The graphic card of course

PD: I have checked the ingame temperatures and they never go above 60ÂșC.
So any help would be much appreciated.

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April 18, 2014 4:02:09 AM

I would call MSI. I don't think you can fix that kinda stuff so if you have a guarantee use it.
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April 18, 2014 11:49:52 AM

Wow it is really that bad? Great... Well thanks anyway. I will call them and hope they see it the same way ;) 
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April 23, 2014 3:09:13 AM

Are you overclocking? If you are overclocking then artifacts are common cause you pushed it beyond its limits. If you get artifacts right out of the box then try either HDMI or DVI, sometimes it could be faulty cables. If none of that fixes (highly doubt its driver issues) then its a faulty card.
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April 23, 2014 7:27:56 AM

Hi. No, I am not overclocking the card. I also doubt it has something to do with the cables because they worked perfectly with my previous card and with another R7 250 I managed to try. No problems whatsoever. So I guess the "faulty card" option is the winner because I can't think of nothing else.
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October 7, 2014 3:10:53 PM

Just posting so that people googling this issue might find my answer helpful. I have the exact same issues as OP and nothing worked. Just when I was ready to give up I read that the R9 270x are "factory overclocked" and that this actually caused a lot of problems for these cards. With that knowledge I downloaded "MSI Afterburner 4" and underclocked the cards memory (not core) from 1400 Mhz to 10% less, so to 1260 Mhz. That fixed my issues!
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October 7, 2014 3:18:11 PM

duqu said:
Just posting so that people googling this issue might find my answer helpful. I have the exact same issues as OP and nothing worked. Just when I was ready to give up I read that the R9 270x are "factory overclocked" and that this actually caused a lot of problems for these cards. With that knowledge I downloaded "MSI Afterburner 4" and underclocked the cards memory (not core) from 1400 Mhz to 10% less, so to 1260 Mhz. That fixed my issues!


But then you are not getting your money's worth of performance and any extra overclocking performance you can get since these cards are built for overclocking.

Because my R9 270 is able to run an overclock of 11180mhz from stock of 950mhz. I would recommend anyone who bought their card with these issues should either RMA or refund it to the retailer if its still possible.
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