GPU/GTX 770 extreme artifacts after fresh driver install

[PowerGlove]

So I built a new PC and I'm getting extreme artifacts after I download any drivers for the new Gigabyte GTX 770.

Mobo: Asus Sabertooth Z97
RAM: 2x 4GB DDR3
GPU:Gigabyte GTX 770
PSU: Seasonic 650 gold
CPU: Intel i3 4160

As mentioned before, every single nvidia-related update to the graphics card, either through windows updates or nvidia updates spews artifacts at me.

I can't show you a picture since I'm running a test to see if it's the mobos fault, but the artifacts look like grey and blue splotches, colours mis-matched, scratches/streaks and pixelations.

I've changed VGA and DVI cables, cc cleaned, removed all previous drivers with ddu remover, changed PCI sockets, re-fitted the card and tried both installing drivers from the disk and from the website.

Every artifact is a mirror of itself with every attempt, I use to get blue/red dots and lines before the ddu cleaner wiped the previous driver versions in which it gave me these other ones.


Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated, I don't want to file a RMA to newegg until I've tried >everything<

One of the only things I haven't tried is having up-to-date drivers and then switching cards, or somehow changing anything in the gpus bios

 

[renz496]

is that pre-overclocked card? or running nvidia stock clock?