- May 3, 2017
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Hi all,
So in certain games, my Sapphire Nitro R9 390X will throw up checkerboard artifacts over sections of the screen every few seconds. It's not every game, and it's not always in particularly demanding games, for example in GTA 5 I'm very definitely CPU bottlenecked (4.7GHz on my FX8350), and my GPU always stays cool, around 70 degrees maximum, and in World of Tanks, where my GPU gets a bit more of a workout, it tends to be worse.
I don't have the card overclocked at all, it's sitting at the stock 1080MHz from the factory but still I get artifacting. I've tried increasing the power limit before but it doesn't seem to help, and reducing clock speeds does help, but I shouldn't really have to do that.
I'm playing at 1440p, so I know my GPU will see more load than most in games, but I'm inclined to believe it's not the GPU, as I've RMAd an Asus R9 390X already for artifacting (much worse, and also got far too hot since they have no active VRM cooling so I was happy to be rid of it anyway, plus it was B-stock replacement which sucks) and I remember my old R9 290X lightining doing it at times aswell, though very rarely.
Is there anything else it could possibly be? I've heard that checkerboarding is generally VRAM related, though I find it unlikely every card I've owned has had faulty VRAM.
My setup is as follows:
CPU: FX8350 @4.7GHz
MoBo: Asus Crosshair V Formula-Z
Ram: 16GB Hyper X Savage stock @1600MHz
PSU: XFX Pro 750W XXX
GPU: Sapphire Nitro 8G D5 stock @1080MHz
Any help would be great, I'd love to get it solved ASAP.
So in certain games, my Sapphire Nitro R9 390X will throw up checkerboard artifacts over sections of the screen every few seconds. It's not every game, and it's not always in particularly demanding games, for example in GTA 5 I'm very definitely CPU bottlenecked (4.7GHz on my FX8350), and my GPU always stays cool, around 70 degrees maximum, and in World of Tanks, where my GPU gets a bit more of a workout, it tends to be worse.
I don't have the card overclocked at all, it's sitting at the stock 1080MHz from the factory but still I get artifacting. I've tried increasing the power limit before but it doesn't seem to help, and reducing clock speeds does help, but I shouldn't really have to do that.
I'm playing at 1440p, so I know my GPU will see more load than most in games, but I'm inclined to believe it's not the GPU, as I've RMAd an Asus R9 390X already for artifacting (much worse, and also got far too hot since they have no active VRM cooling so I was happy to be rid of it anyway, plus it was B-stock replacement which sucks) and I remember my old R9 290X lightining doing it at times aswell, though very rarely.
Is there anything else it could possibly be? I've heard that checkerboarding is generally VRAM related, though I find it unlikely every card I've owned has had faulty VRAM.
My setup is as follows:
CPU: FX8350 @4.7GHz
MoBo: Asus Crosshair V Formula-Z
Ram: 16GB Hyper X Savage stock @1600MHz
PSU: XFX Pro 750W XXX
GPU: Sapphire Nitro 8G D5 stock @1080MHz
Any help would be great, I'd love to get it solved ASAP.
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