(Imagine these squares randomly appearing in different places on the gate every few seconds.)
Me again.
Recently, I went on an unsuccessfull overclocking endeavor with my Radeon R9 290X (Reference). I slowly kept on bumping up the clock rate and the power limit to the card in CCC until, right after running FireStrike, I recieved a lovely BSOD reading out "Attempt To Reset Disply Driver Timed Out". I'm really paranoid about my hardware, so I immediately drew back the clock rates to stock settings, and now, I'm noticing very rare and hard-to-notice artifacts such as flickering black squares on gate textures and flickering holes in shadows. I don't know if they were there beforehand, but ever since the BSOD, I've been paranoid about artifacts, so maybe I'm just noticing them now?
So far, I've only seen these scary little bits in Watch Dogs, and I haven't really noticed any in other games. Not even Crysis 3.
So what do you guys think? Am I being too paranoid? Should I raise the GPU power limit? I just can't stand the thought of an impaired GPU, so please. Any help is VERY appreciated! Thanks!