bsod. artifacts. black screen? what's wrong?

[monsterhuang]

So recently my computer started to act up. When gaming I would have these green artifacts all over my screen and then my game would crash and there would be a notification saying that my GPU display driver stopped working. Today the artifacts appeared again when gaming, my computer then had a blue screen saying something about display drivers. Now when I tri logging in windows bsod would appear. And 1/4 of the time this would happen mean while the other 1/4 my screen would go black. I am using a gtx 560ti from 3 years ago and I have overclocked it before. I'm thinking that the GPU is the problem, what do you guys think?

 

[TStahler]

Your graphics card might be overheating and is more than likely on its way out. I would run Furmark and see what temperatures you get. You could remove the PCB of the card and reapply thermal past to it as a last resort if that is the case, but more than likely, you would have to probably have to replace your graphics card.

 

[monsterhuang]

Ran hwmonitor. GPU temps doesn't even show. Would a gtx 970 be the way to go? If so where can buy it from? Newegg sold out and amazon 700 for a gtx 970 strix