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Asus R9 280 (non x) artifacts. Pixelated squares and lines.

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October 2, 2014 3:26:29 AM

Hi,

So I just finished putting my computer together about a month ago and these artifacts have been showing up since almost the beginning. They seem to appear at random, at least there is no correlation to the temperature of the GPU or how hard the CPU is working. They appear sometimes when gaming, but other times just when running a web browser. I have updated the drivers, rolled back the drivers, tried underclocking and I am out of ideas as to what it could be. I've read about all the artifacting problems with the r9 280x, but those seemed to be in relation to the heatsink and the vram overheating which I don't think is happening with mine.

Fullscreening or changing resolution temporarily resolves the problem. Even changing the resolution of another monitor. I haven't yet been able to make the artifacts appear on a second monitor. That is, it only appears on whichever monitor is set as the "Main Display" in Window settings.

Here are three examples of the different artifacts.
http://imgur.com/a/6Ttww

I'm going to update my Mobo Bios, I'm just waiting for a USB stick to come in the mail. If I can't figure out what is causing it after that I'll RMA the card next week or so. Everything else is working fine, I had one blue screen today which hadn't happened before and also had a screen tear in the error screen.

Really appreciate any and all help.

I'm running Windows 8.1 64 bit. And my specs are:

Mobo - Asus H97-Pro
GPU - Asus R9 280 direct CU II Top
CPU - i5 4590 3.3ghz so. 1150
PSU - 550W XFX TS series 80+ Gold
RAM - Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR3-1600 DIMM

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October 2, 2014 4:01:41 AM

return the gpu it is defective.
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October 2, 2014 4:10:56 AM

Yepp you got corrupted VRAM. Classic checkerboard pattern artifacts.
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October 2, 2014 4:59:22 AM

dovah-chan said:
Yepp you got corrupted VRAM. Classic checkerboard pattern artifacts.


even though fullscreening and changing resolution temporarily resolves the problem? Its definitely a corrupted VRAM? Also, the box my GPU came in is damaged, will that be a problem for the RMA?
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October 2, 2014 5:53:44 AM

Generally you don't return the GPU with the box so it doesn't matter. When you ship your card you'll want to put it into the antistatic bag it came in (or another one you have lying around) and put some protective packing materials around it of course.

My very own 7970 had corrupted VRAM and I saw those checkerboard patterns just like you. It occurs when data that is dumped onto the VRAM gets stuck in one memory cell. Thus you get those kinds of artifacts and or display corruption.

So when you temporarily fix it, you're probably flushing the data out of that stuck cell and into other non-stuck ones. It's hard to determine what cell in what chip is causing the artifacts as there isn't a way that I've found that is actually a reliable test for VRAM because of the nature of GDDR5.
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October 2, 2014 6:06:57 AM

dovah-chan said:
Generally you don't return the GPU with the box so it doesn't matter. When you ship your card you'll want to put it into the antistatic bag it came in (or another one you have lying around) and put some protective packing materials around it of course.

My very own 7970 had corrupted VRAM and I saw those checkerboard patterns just like you. It occurs when data that is dumped onto the VRAM gets stuck in one memory cell. Thus you get those kinds of artifacts and or display corruption.

So when you temporarily fix it, you're probably flushing the data out of that stuck cell and into other non-stuck ones. It's hard to determine what cell in what chip is causing the artifacts as there isn't a way that I've found that is actually a reliable test for VRAM because of the nature of GDDR5.


Thanks, I don't know enough about to computers to have figured it out myself. Thanks for explaining the situation, it makes a lot more sense. I'll send the GPU back next week.

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