Sapphire R9 380X screen flickering, red lines and input errors

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I just bought a new Sapphire R9 380X Nitro, and I'm having all kinds of problems with it. Recommended minimum power supply is 500W and I have a 550W OCZ model from a few years ago. When I first installed the card yesterday it was fine, ran a bunch of games with no issues, but today it's been messing up. I switched my monitor off for a few minutes, and when I switched it back on a whole bunch of issues started to show, from flickering lines across the screen to fuzzy red lines, and when I restarted my system, I got an "input not supported" error from my monitor. Anyone got any ideas? Sounds like it's bricked to me. Any help much appreciated.
 
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It's not bricked. A graphics card doesn't brick like that. Basically if you manage to mess up the graphics card so that it doesn't have any sort of software installed on it would suggest a ''brick''. Not the case here. Generally OCZ power supplies are terrible so I'm wondering if your power supply has anything to do with that, but in this case I would think there is something wrong with your HDMI/DVI-D cable aswell. When those are only a bit loose in the ports you get issues just like that so make sure those are firm in the ports and don't move.


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It's not bricked. A graphics card doesn't brick like that. Basically if you manage to mess up the graphics card so that it doesn't have any sort of software installed on it would suggest a ''brick''. Not the case here. Generally OCZ power supplies are terrible so I'm wondering if your power supply has anything to do with that, but in this case I would think there is something wrong with your HDMI/DVI-D cable aswell. When those are only a bit loose in the ports you get issues just like that so make sure those are firm in the ports and don't move.


 
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Thanks for the reply! I just upgraded from a HD6870 and I'm using the same DVI cable which is fine (I've just put the old card back in to make sure, and it's good). As for my power supply, I remember taking a recommendation for it from a user on this site but if you think it's bad I might consider upgrading (it's the 550W Fatal1ty model if that makes any difference). I'll try putting the 380x back in and see what happens.

 
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That 550w has degraded over time and is probably putting out much less than that now. The 380x can pull over 250w so depending on what else you have in your system and the age of the components I can see the PSU being the problem.
 
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