My graphics card makes a lot of artifacts

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Alex_225

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Last summer I got a new gaming PC and it was working pretty good until it started crashing with visual artefacts when playing. Last month I asked the guy who build the Pc if I could give the bad card for a new one and he said ''yes, but I will test it first to see if the graphics card is the problem and not something else". After 2 weeks(I was gone) he said that the graphics card is good and put windows 10 on my pc(I had windows 7)because he thought that this was the problem . I know that the graphics card is bad because what could make so many artefacts but I don't know how to change it for a new one or if I even can. Do I need the original box or something(he gave me just the pc). And if I can't change it can you guys recommend a pretty good graphics card for a good price(in my country this graphics card cost about 224€ (I live in Romania) and I would also want Nvidia because I heard that it doesn't crash.
 
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That button increases the fan speed so it'll cool better, allowing for it to run at higher clocks, though it still throttles at high temps. The card will be noisier with it in that mode, but it'll stay cooler.
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Alex_225

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Can you please tell me at what temperature my graphics card should be working when gaming?


Processor
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4690K CPU @ 3.50GHz

Video Card
AMD Radeon R9 200 Series (Vapor-X R9 280X 3G D5)

Video Card #2
Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600

RAM
8.0 GB

Operating System
Microsoft Windows 10 (build 14393), 64-bit
(I got those information from a site)

and I made some photos of the PSU :
https://s10.postimg.org/6ywjjpqxl/20160808_195424_1.jpg
https://s10.postimg.org/6q3z3fd4p/20160808_195435_1.jpg
 
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bystander

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Was it artifacting in Overwatch? It's also possible it's the VRMs that are overheating, which are not shown on monitoring software.

If you can, I'd test it in another system before you RMA or replace it.
 
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bystander

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The monitor the temps in that game. That bar crash on the AMD cards were usually due to VRM's overheating in the past.
 
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Alex_225

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so let's say that the voltage regulator is overheating, is there a way to fix it or I just need to get another one?
 
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Alex_225

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So I stress tested it with FurMark for about 8 minutes. The max temp was 80.0 C but it stayed at 79.0 C and the cpu fan worked at 50%.Usually it would crash when running this test but after my computer crashed today i took the graphics card hoping that i would find the problem and i found a little button on the side that i pressed and from then it didn't crash. Do you know what that button did? (from what i know its something with the bios)
 
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Alex_225

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well thank you. I think you just solved my problem. 2 hours of gaming without any crash.kinda... but you made me understand what was happening with my PC. so thank you
 
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