EVGA 970 Artifacts, hardware or software?

Prfct

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Apr 14, 2015
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Hi... Yesterday I switched my EVGA 760 for a new EVGA 970... I installed new drivers and played through Crysis 3 on one sitting but around the ending I got some artifacts that I thought came from alt-tabbing to read a guide on the last boss.

Anyway just to be sure I quit the game, cleaned up drivers using guru3d software and reinstalled them (now I have nvidia new ones, the ones for gta v)... came back to last boss fight of Crysis 3 and had no problems whatsoever.

Today while playing World of Warcraft I noted the plants on my garrison had artifacts... temps while playing Crysis 3 maxed at 69°... and while playing wow they are at 59°... I'm inclined to think this is a drivers problem because yesterday after Crysis 3 I played Witcher 2 all maxed for 4 hours straight and have no problems but I could be wrong and I need some opinions on what can I do or if I should RMA the card.

I have a video of the plants... I didn't have shadowplay activated on Crysis 3, I'm afraid.

https://youtu.be/ZhZN4Qpg-xU