Weird artifacting on a 290

RadeonHDx

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I bought a 290 Tri-X of SieB at the end of last week, it arrived on Monday and it seemed fine. It was working fine with no problems till Wednesday when I started folding and the card started to produce random artifacts that span from left to right across the screen.

I have tried resetting the clocks on my GPU and CPU and also all of the most recent drivers and also the 14.4 drivers after a full DDU sweep each time. I recorded a quick video showing the lines that come on, if I stress the card they come on immidiately but still come even when the card isn't stressed at all from a cold boot after a little time.



Thanks guys, if you need any more info then I'll give it you but I couldn't really think of what else to include.
 
Does it only do this on your browser? I see the horizontal artifacts but they don't effect the scroll bar...

I get a similar artifact when smooth scrolling is enabled in firefox, I know this is only following your mouse pointer, but from what I can see from the video it only effects the inner browser area..
 
Does it only do this on your browser? I see the horizontal artifacts but they don't effect the scroll bar...

I get a similar artifact when smooth scrolling is enabled in firefox, I know this is only following your mouse pointer, but from what I can see from the video it only effects the inner browser area..

Unfortunately it happens everywhere.
 
Unfortunately it happens everywhere.
Yeah just 1080'd the video and took a screen grab.. it's not good dude, looks like VRAM overload/failure

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If it's doing it on stock clocks fella, I'd be looking at RMA. You really aren't having a good time with GPUs your right there.
 
That never happened with me when I was using the card, do you have powerplay enabled in MSI after burner?

Also are you sure it is the card causing it and not your monitor?

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I believe to do any form of RMA you require the original proof of purchase, I know with Corsair, Asus and Gigabyte you do, might be worth while throwing SieB a PM.
 
That never happened with me when I was using the card, do you have powerplay enabled in MSI after burner?

Also are you sure it is the card causing it and not your monitor?

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Sorry mate, I feel like a bit of an arse for not asking you first directly. At the moment (just a few minutes) the artifacting has gone after I enabled the unofficial overclocking limits with PP support. I'm assuming, and hoping, that this is a fix because I have the overclock running on 1150 core and 1550 mem and it seems to be folding fine which was where the problems used to arise from. I'll run a bench or something to see if it's really gone but looking good at the moment.

Thanks guys and sorry about not asking you beforehand, SieB.
 
Sorry mate, I feel like a bit of an arse for not asking you first directly. At the moment (just a few minutes) the artifacting has gone after I enabled the unofficial overclocking limits with PP support. I'm assuming, and hoping, that this is a fix because I have the overclock running on 1150 core and 1550 mem and it seems to be folding fine which was where the problems used to arise from. I'll run a bench or something to see if it's really gone but looking good at the moment.

Thanks guys and sorry about not asking you beforehand, SieB.

No probs, you have every right to be concerned :)

It most likely is powerplay causing it if you didn't have it enabled, it keeps the card on 3D clocks instead of downclocking to 2D clocks for when you are using stuff like the desktop and browser if you don't enable it.
 
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No probs, you have every right to be concerned :)

It most likely is powerplay causing it if you didn't have it enabled, it keeps the card on 3D clocks instead of downclocking to 2D clocks for when you are using stuff like the desktop and browser if you don't enable it.

Thanks for clearing it up mate, and I'm not sure why it wasn't on because I always run my cards (and the cards of the people who's rigs I've built) with the unofficial overclocking limits and the extra monitoring stuff so I've no idea why it was off. Maybe since I updated?

Anyway, it doesn't really matter now as it's sorted and I can get back to folding :).
 
Thanks for clearing it up mate, and I'm not sure why it wasn't on because I always run my cards (and the cards of the people who's rigs I've built) with the unofficial overclocking limits and the extra monitoring stuff so I've no idea why it was off. Maybe since I updated?

Anyway, it doesn't really matter now as it's sorted and I can get back to folding :).

All good then, glad you got it is sorted. Happy folding :)
 
just a FYI..
sapphire would want you to return the card to the place of purchace. "they no longer accept rma directly from consumers. and you would have to fight to manage to get them to tell you to post it off to asia. Provided you had proof of purchace."
Gigabyte are usually better and will accept a card that some one els bought.
pretty sure evga would say no to any rma if you didnt register the card in time.

the only company "i know of" that give a no BS no quibbles just tell me the sn and if its in warranty we will give you free delivery both ways. We dont care who you bought it off or even if you have proof of purchace is intell.
although they will give a lip service of can we have the SN, other number on the item and ask where you bought it.
If you just give them all the numbers they ask for then go on a 10 page list of what you did to try and fix the issue. they just send you the address and an account number to book with dhl.

:rolleyes:
I like intell more because of that.
 
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