Artifacts showing up on monitor. Yellow squares on white, blue squares on black and light grey- Windows 7 64 bit

[dogs]

EDIT 5: I figured it out. It's the GPU, I tried another GPU and that fixed the problem. My RMA request got accepted by EVGA so all is well. Thanks to all who read.

EDIT: Also don't get artifacts on boot or when orbs show up or when it is logging in. It's until it boots up into desktop that it starts.
EDIT 2: Installed Nvidia drivers and uninstalled them again. The problem is now gone
But that means something is off with the GPU. I'm going to try to put the GPU in another PCI slot see if that changes anything? Still, everything looks great right now but I don't have the GPU drivers installed, just have it connected to the monitor (Which is my only connection to the monitor).
EDIT 3: Changed to different PCI and the problem is back... I'm reinstalling the motherboard drivers just to make sure but nothing seems to take the problem away...
EDIT 4: Discovered that the aero theme worsens the effect. Changing it to W7 Basic in personalize. The blue artifacts go away and same for yellow. Until I open chrome, the both colored artifacts come back up and are basically the same as before. I made sure the motherboard chipset is updated also SATA. The BIOS is up to date.
Going to try another GPU, 650ti Boost, if this does the same effect then it's not the GPU.

I'm getting these artifacts while in Windows 7 64 bit, like the title says yellow squares on white and blue squares on black. Meaning that the squares show up depending on the color of the monitor. Oddly enough, it looks perfect when in a greyish color.
When watching videos, it gets worse. White artifacts and blue artifacts start to show up frantically.
These squares are small pixels in that shape, probably about 10-15x 10-15 pixels.
Note that I have checked this on other monitors and I get the same outcome.


Whenever there is movement or I'm typing. The squares move places, even frantically at times. On Tom's Hardware, some of the sections make the yellow squares go crazy.

I'm in the process of some updates and I already uninstalled my GPU drivers and the problem is still here. About to install them again. Will update on process. [strike](There is a windows update for 970, never seen this before so will definitely install that really soon)[/strike]
EDIT: Installed 970 drivers and problem persists. Cannot install this 970 Windows update for some reason. Get error code 80070103 which shows that I've already installed this or is update is out of date. Although update is very recent--> 9-28-15
Leaning on maybe a GPU or RAM problem seeing from what I've read?

Here are some pictures that I took, uploaded them on imgur:
http://imgur.com/a/1YI4B

Description:
1st and 4th: Yellow artifacts on white
2nd and 3rd: Blue artifacts on black. (The amazon one is on the light grey that shows up when you're opening on of the menus on the top right)
5th: Normal looking on this color and simlar colors (dark black and dark grey) (I've uninstalled Killer Network Manager since then, just showed up well so I took the picture)

Thanks for reading!

Specs:
Motherboard: ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0
CPU: AMD FX 8370
CPU Cooler: NZXT Kraken X61
GPU: EVGA 970 SSC ACX 2.0
RAM: Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB Kit (8GBx2) DDR3 1600
PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 850 G2 80+ GOLD
Case: NZXT H440 Razer Edition

Built this computer about 3-4 weeks ago.

 

[Shaun o]

Right the problem points to your graphics card if the same thing happens but you have used two monitors to verify the monitor its self is not at fault, or the monitor you were using at the time it started to happen.

The cause is down to in general to the video memory of your Evga 970 Nvidia graphics card.
You ether have the graphics card overclocked to much on your memory settings of the graphics card if you applied some manually to the card.

So back the memory clock off by about 25Mhz on the memory speed and see if it resolves the problem.
If not back the Gpu`s core speed down by 25Mhz also.

Test again for screen artifacts, if you still get artifacts back the memory clock speed off by 10Mhz speed steps till the artifacts no longer appear.

You can also get the artifacts when the memory of the graphics card, or the gpu get too hot.
so check the temps of the 970 card.

And consider adding extra cooling fans to your computer case if you have room to fit extra ones to help keep the 970 card a bit cooler.

The cause is the overclock on the graphics card memory or Gpu, or because temps inside of the card and internal computer case are high.

To me it looks like you need to back any overclock on the 970 card by a small margin to resolve your current problem.

It should fix the problem if you follow the advice above ok.

 

[dogs]

Right the problem points to your graphics card if the same thing happens but you have used two monitors to verify the monitor its self is not at fault, or the monitor you were using at the time it started to happen.

The cause is down to in general to the video memory of your Evga 970 Nvidia graphics card.
You ether have the graphics card overclocked to much on your memory settings of the graphics card if you applied some manually to the card.

So back the memory clock off by about 25Mhz on the memory speed and see if it resolves the problem.
If not back the Gpu`s core speed down by 25Mhz also.

Test again for screen artifacts, if you still get artifacts back the memory clock speed off by 10Mhz speed steps till the artifacts no longer appear.

You can also get the artifacts when the memory of the graphics card, or the gpu get too hot.
so check the temps of the 970 card.

And consider adding extra cooling fans to your computer case if you have room to fit extra ones to help keep the 970 card a bit cooler.

The cause is the overclock on the graphics card memory or Gpu, or because temps inside of the card and internal computer case are high.

To me it looks like you need to back any overclock on the 970 card by a small margin to resolve your current problem.

It should fix the problem if you follow the advice above ok.

Hello,

So I followed what you said on the overclock using EVGA PrecisionX 16. This card is SSC, factory overclocked never touched the settings myself. So, I brought it down plenty over the factory overclock. FO is 140mhz, I brought it down -210mhz, going down initially 25mhz but nothing was working so I brought it down more. The problem persists with no noticeable changes.
Also, have tried two monitors and even tried a different PC on this monitor and everything looked great.

This case has plenty of fans, 3 intake and 1 outtake (3 if you count the two on radiator). The card is 36-37C currently so it's definitely not overheating. I'm using CAM and CPUID, both show the same numbers.

 

[michaelcollins918]

Right the problem points to your graphics card if the same thing happens but you have used two monitors to verify the monitor its self is not at fault, or the monitor you were using at the time it started to happen.

The cause is down to in general to the video memory of your Evga 970 Nvidia graphics card.
You ether have the graphics card overclocked to much on your memory settings of the graphics card if you applied some manually to the card.

So back the memory clock off by about 25Mhz on the memory speed and see if it resolves the problem.
If not back the Gpu`s core speed down by 25Mhz also.

Test again for screen artifacts, if you still get artifacts back the memory clock speed off by 10Mhz speed steps till the artifacts no longer appear.

You can also get the artifacts when the memory of the graphics card, or the gpu get too hot.
so check the temps of the 970 card.

And consider adding extra cooling fans to your computer case if you have room to fit extra ones to help keep the 970 card a bit cooler.

The cause is the overclock on the graphics card memory or Gpu, or because temps inside of the card and internal computer case are high.

To me it looks like you need to back any overclock on the 970 card by a small margin to resolve your current problem.

It should fix the problem if you follow the advice above ok.

Hello,

So I followed what you said on the overclock using EVGA PrecisionX 16. This card is SSC, factory overclocked never touched the settings myself. So, I brought it down plenty over the factory overclock. FO is 140mhz, I brought it down -210mhz, going down initially 25mhz but nothing was working so I brought it down more. The problem persists with no noticeable changes.
Also, have tried two monitors and even tried a different PC on this monitor and everything looked great.

This case has plenty of fans, 3 intake and 1 outtake (3 if you count the two on radiator). The card is 36-37C currently so it's definitely not overheating. I'm using CAM and CPUID, both show the same numbers.

I have exactly the same problem with newly bought 1080ti, did u RMA it?