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Just had a weird graphics crash, sign of a failing card?

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May 30, 2014 1:30:28 PM

So I was watching youtube and all of a sudden the screen turned into very fine, multicolored lines with some sections vertical and others horizontal. Audio still worked and I could tell that when I hit ctrl alt delete that the colored lines turned more blue so the display kind of responded. i did a hard reset and it was normal on start up.

I have a sapphire dual-x 280x, does this sound like early hardware failure or a weird glitch that probably won't repeat often. I had no crash errors or weird messages upon startup.

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May 30, 2014 1:31:19 PM

Are you overclocked at all? GPU or CPU?
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May 30, 2014 10:18:49 PM

CPU a little bit, about 2.6->3.2 with a hyper 212 cooler. GPU none at all. Have good airflow without any heating issues without a similar event before.
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