Artifacting in every GPU based program

[Cyrustheczar]

Hi,
I've had my laptop for almost 2 years now and haven't encountered an issue with it until recently. All the Adobe products I use (Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere) as well as Sony Vegas, Valley Benchmark, and any program that I run with my graphics card has been leaving the same odd L shaped artifacts all of the screen (by run with my graphics card I mean right click->run with graphics processor).

I have uninstalled my drivers and reinstalled them ~5 times using device manager, add/remove programs, GURU3D in safe mode, preforming a "clean install" under Nvidia's custom install options, and downloading the driver directly from Nvidia.
I've checked the temperature in MSI Afterburner while using a program and it's sitting around 45 C- and also tried under clocking to no avail.
I've used another display but the artifacts are still there- probably not a monitor issue.

I've run out of ideas; I suspect it's a hardware issue.
Any help would be much appreciated.

Specs:
Aspire E5-573-56RG Laptop
Intel i5-5200U
Nvidia GeForce 940M 4GB VRAM
8 GB DDR3
250 GB SSD
1 TB HDD

Screenshots of the artifacts:
http://i.imgur.com/b319CDf.png
http://i.imgur.com/msGpBHh.png
http://i.imgur.com/e2lNjHr.jpg

 

[getochkn]

Seems like the GPU is dying. Heat isn't an issue, but something is still wrong with it. A professional with the proper equipment could possibly reflow it and give it some life, or reball the GPU, but I suspect that could be the problem, or just the GPU is dying in general.

Now a lot of laptop have the "nvidia switch" thing where they use the intel GPU for basic stuff and nvidia for gaming so it seems it's the nvidia portion that is dying.

Any warranty on it left?

 

[Cyrustheczar]

Seems like the GPU is dying. Heat isn't an issue, but something is still wrong with it. A professional with the proper equipment could possibly reflow it and give it some life, or reball the GPU, but I suspect that could be the problem, or just the GPU is dying in general.

Now a lot of laptop have the "nvidia switch" thing where they use the intel GPU for basic stuff and nvidia for gaming so it seems it's the nvidia portion that is dying.

Any warranty on it left?

Ah I figured- thankfully there's still a warranty on it so I'll send it in to Acer; thanks for the confirmation!