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R9 280x Dual-X Artifacting issue

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September 17, 2014 6:49:07 PM

So recently I bought a Sapphire R9 280x Dual-X card. I've been using it for almost a week. Occasionally I got artifacting in games. I couldn't figure out why it was artifacting, tried reseating it in the PCIe slot, reduced memory clocks, increased voltage, and put fans at 100% to try and cool the card better. Finally tonight I was able to recreate the problem. When I was OC'ing it, I must've OC'ed too high for the stock voltage and the display driver crashed. Crysis 3 crashed also when the display drivers crashed (which I think is normal), but when I restarted Crysis, I started getting bad artifacting at the main menu, same when I entered a single player mission. The only way to get the card back to normal is a reboot. My question is, why does the card start artifacting after the display drivers crash? I know how to prevent it... just prevent the drivers from crashing i.e. don't OC, but why does it happen?

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September 17, 2014 7:18:01 PM

the software crashed because the hardware crashed

you may have damaged it .
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September 17, 2014 7:38:22 PM

The GPU isn't damaged... I ran the Valley benchmark loop overnight and it never had any problems. Besides, the clock speeds wouldn't damage a card, damage would be caused by overheating/overvolting. From what I'm told, artifacting is caused by memory... Do the drivers no initialize correctly again after they crash? Or are the drivers corrupt and I should uninstall/reinstall?
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September 17, 2014 10:20:30 PM

Increasing clock speed will increase heat , and some chips do not handle very much of an OC .
Its possible you have damaged the chip .

I have seen artifacting from damaged gpu's . Ive managed to damage my own gpu once or twice .

But remove the graphics driver and then download the latest version to see if it makes a difference
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September 27, 2014 11:09:45 PM

You have damaged it slightly but you can still run it on stock clocks and voltages. Try a different OC program like tri-X.
Besides, OC'ing is pointless on that card for gain in performance.
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