MSI GTX 1070 Artifacting

Nathen313

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CPU: i7 4790K @ 4.6GHz
GPU: MSI GAMING GTX 1070
Ram: 16GB G-Skill ripjaws
PSU: Corsair HXi 1000w

So I just recently received this 1070 and I'm starting to bench mark it through Firestrike/Stress Test and one problem I noticed was the artifacts while OCed. So I turn it down, still artifacts. Back to stock, still artifacts. Down clock it to the lowest on Afteburner -364/-502, still artifacts. But I noticed that it only does it on a specific area on Firestrike stresstest. Is this a bad card or just software issues.

I've marked in blue.

http://i.imgur.com/28EM3wA.jpg


 
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If it only happens in that stress test i wouldn't worry about it. It could be corrupt textures or software code, or even a driver issue. I'm not even sure i can see any artifacts in your screenshot....

Pigypop

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I think this is not an artifact. I think this is an artifact https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qVkE04C61Ys/maxresdefault.jpg.
Just benchmark the card with valley or heaven, check same build scores, if they match +-500 you are fine. If you are ingame and your gpu starts rendering artifacts as in the link above just rma.