Found out it was the gpu that was faulty. That explains the artifacts on the screen but swapping it for another one worked and everythings working fine now. The motherboard and ssd were both still working fine.
I recently built a PC with this part list https://pcpartpicker.com/list/PH2zrr about 2 weeks ago and had it working perfectly with low temps and running games and applications normally. I first noticed today that one of my games was having an unusually long loading time and a few hours later I...