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Artifacting (serious) please offer help
I'm seeing screen artifacting. It used to just be in certain games and very rare, but today it reared its ugly head in the chrome internet browser. it looks like a disfigured 2d square of pixels, it's hard to describe. I've had worse artifacting but this is the most common. My pc is only 5 months old, and it has been having issues like this for as long as I can remember, but they weren't common enough to cause concern at the time.

What do you think is wrong? RAM,CPU,GPU? the specs of my pc are as follows:CPU: Intel Core i3-4130 3.4GHz Dual-Core Processor
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H97-D3H ATX LGA1150 Motherboard
GPU: MSI Radeon R9 270X 2GB
Power supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX


If any other details are required let me know.

I opened HWMonitor as soon as I saw the artifacting and my temperatures were normal, idle temps. I also closed the chrome window in a panic and upon re-opening the browser it was fixed. I can always stop the artifacting by closing the game and re-launching it, however in Dota2 today the artifacting made an appearance very quickly after the other, and all that was required to fix it was to leave the match and rejoin it (no closing of the actual Dota2 launcher was required). It all seems very strange to me.
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October 12, 2014 1:58:46 PM

first thing is to get rid of any overclocks that you are running and see if that fixes it.

next I would uninstall any overclocking programs you are running and then also uninstall the drivers. make sure to restart after each program removal. then install drivers again and see if that helps.

if none of that helps you can install msi afterburner and try moving the power bar up to +10 and see if it just wants some more power.

there is also the possibility that the pcie slot is going bad and you can move your gpu to another slot if possible.
October 12, 2014 1:54:56 PM

Sounds like a driver error to me.

Try reinstalling the latest drivers, and failing that, rolling back to previous ones.

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