- Dec 20, 2013
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Basic system specs:
i7 4770k
Corsair H80i
16GB Corsair Dominator Platinum 1866
Asus Z87 Sabertooth
Samsung 840 240GB SSD
2x 1TB WD Black
Seasonic Modular 760watt Platinum
So, I built this new pc recently with all of those silly Black Friday deals, and things had been going smoothly. I didn't have a graphics card at build time because I was in the process of rma'ing a GeForce 460 (fan died). Everything booted up first try, got all my drivers updated, bios flashed, Steam installed, backups restored, etc.
Everything felt... good. I was able to overclock the ram a bit, and got the cpu to 4.5 stable fairly easily. The on-processor 4600 is capable of much more than I was expecting, given past experiences with, for example, onboard GeForce 6150 chips. That said, I was anxious to have a dedicated video again, so I was giddy when the manufacturer told me they were upgrading my hardware and that the card was going to arrive in two days.
When the video card did arrive, I stuck it in, expecting the plug-and-play experience that I have become familiar with over the past few years of pc building. Instead, I was met with this: oh-jeez-artifacts-halp
To see if I had bad pci-e slots, I salvaged an old GeForce 8500 (single slot no psu connector) and stuck it into the top two pci-e slots. The 8500 worked fine; Slow, but fine. With that, I sent replacement 1 on it's way back to the manufacturer.
I got replacement 2 back a week or so ago, and ran into the same problem. After contacting the manufacturer again, the CS rep suggested I try the card in a different system. Following his advice, I stuck the card into my old system, and lo and behold: no artifacts!
After telling a friend about this affair, he suggested that the power supply may have been the culprit. So, I bought a psu tester AND a new backup psu. The Seasonic power supply showed no deviation from advertised voltages on the tester, and neither did the new psu, which suggested to me that something else was the issue.
Having just installed and gone through multiple configurations of bios settings and hardware configs ranging from one less fan to nothing-connected-but-the-cpu-cooler, I am at a loss. Hell, I even took the single slot AMD 7750 that I was going to give my sister for Christmas (I'm a horrible person) and stuck it in. Works fine, and I'm using that card to write this post, drivers be damned.
So, TL;DR: Unsure if two bad cards in a row or faulty motherboard. Are there possible bios fixes? Do I need to call Asus for an rma? Should I rma the card (AGAIN)?
Thanks in advance,
Jammy
Edit 1: Yes, I have tried different monitor cables and a different monitor. Same issues.
i7 4770k
Corsair H80i
16GB Corsair Dominator Platinum 1866
Asus Z87 Sabertooth
Samsung 840 240GB SSD
2x 1TB WD Black
Seasonic Modular 760watt Platinum
So, I built this new pc recently with all of those silly Black Friday deals, and things had been going smoothly. I didn't have a graphics card at build time because I was in the process of rma'ing a GeForce 460 (fan died). Everything booted up first try, got all my drivers updated, bios flashed, Steam installed, backups restored, etc.
Everything felt... good. I was able to overclock the ram a bit, and got the cpu to 4.5 stable fairly easily. The on-processor 4600 is capable of much more than I was expecting, given past experiences with, for example, onboard GeForce 6150 chips. That said, I was anxious to have a dedicated video again, so I was giddy when the manufacturer told me they were upgrading my hardware and that the card was going to arrive in two days.
When the video card did arrive, I stuck it in, expecting the plug-and-play experience that I have become familiar with over the past few years of pc building. Instead, I was met with this: oh-jeez-artifacts-halp
To see if I had bad pci-e slots, I salvaged an old GeForce 8500 (single slot no psu connector) and stuck it into the top two pci-e slots. The 8500 worked fine; Slow, but fine. With that, I sent replacement 1 on it's way back to the manufacturer.
I got replacement 2 back a week or so ago, and ran into the same problem. After contacting the manufacturer again, the CS rep suggested I try the card in a different system. Following his advice, I stuck the card into my old system, and lo and behold: no artifacts!
After telling a friend about this affair, he suggested that the power supply may have been the culprit. So, I bought a psu tester AND a new backup psu. The Seasonic power supply showed no deviation from advertised voltages on the tester, and neither did the new psu, which suggested to me that something else was the issue.
Having just installed and gone through multiple configurations of bios settings and hardware configs ranging from one less fan to nothing-connected-but-the-cpu-cooler, I am at a loss. Hell, I even took the single slot AMD 7750 that I was going to give my sister for Christmas (I'm a horrible person) and stuck it in. Works fine, and I'm using that card to write this post, drivers be damned.
So, TL;DR: Unsure if two bad cards in a row or faulty motherboard. Are there possible bios fixes? Do I need to call Asus for an rma? Should I rma the card (AGAIN)?
Thanks in advance,
Jammy
Edit 1: Yes, I have tried different monitor cables and a different monitor. Same issues.
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