Gigabyte GTX 660 TI making artifacts

armandhansen

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Good day everyone.

I just got myself a secondhand Gigabyte GTX 660 TI Windforce.
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While running FurMark, I get artifacts on the screen. See picture below.
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Now I have read all the article on google about setting back the Core Clock and I have tried that with MSI After Burner. Now I have 2 question, even if I set the Core Clock lower, and I start FurMark, it automatically jumps back to the overclock speed of 1100MHz and starts going down as the temp goes up, and secondly, a strange thing I saw while running ASUS GPU Tweak II, the memory clock jumps to 6026MHz. Is that even possible or correct? But on FurMark it stays just under 3000MHz. As well on random occasions I will get the artifacts popup for a brief second while working in Windows. I have also tried running Heaven Benchmark 4.0, but as soon as it starts up, it crashes. The same happened when I tried to play Battlefield 4. Is it possible to stop the card from overclocking itself automatically (maybe that would stop the artifacts and crashing)? Or can someone give me some advice on what to try next? I have tried to give as much detail as possible of everything that I have tried. If there is anything I have left out, please let me know and I will update you. My complete PC specs is as follow:

Intel Core i7 3770 @ 3.40GHz
MSI H77MA Motherboard
12 GB DDR3 1600MHz
Raidmax RX-730SS 730W PSU
Windows 7 64 bit
347.52 nVidia Drivers
256GB Samsung SSD
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MemTestCL is a very old video memory test; I'm not sure how reliable it is; but the rest looks interesting. I thank you since you gave me a good source of testing tools!

I3lue1

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MemTestCL is a very old video memory test; I'm not sure how reliable it is; but the rest looks interesting. I thank you since you gave me a good source of testing tools!
 
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