I built a new system maybe 2 months ago, and everything was running great for about a month. I use it solely for gaming; mostly Oculus Rift.
Everything was fine until I bought a set of extenders for the rift headset. After adding these (probably a coincidence) I started getting artifacts/tearing while playing games. I removed the extensions, and they still persisted. The artifacts/tearing occur during Rift play, as well as normal games. I sent the card to Gigabyte for warranty work, and they say everything is fine.
I just got it back and installed it, and now it is actually worse, the artifacts are showing up under normal desktop usage (web browsing, etc).
I have the latest Nvidia drivers installed, latest BIOS, etc.
I have tried under clocking the RAM, nothing. I haven't tried under clocking the CPU yet, but once I figure out how to do that I will.
What else should I check? Or any tests that I could run to narrow down a hardware issue?
System consists of the following:
ASRock B450M PRO4
AMD R5 2600 (stock cooler)
MyDigitalSSD BPX Pro 512 NVME
Patriot Viper 4 8GB (2 x 4GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3000 (PC4 24000)
Gigabyte 1060 3GB Windforce
Corsair CX430 (the only part reused from a previous build, probably nearing 5 years old, now)
Could the PSU potentially causing the issue? I know it's right on the threshold of being enough for the GPU I have, so I have been wanting to upgrade it anyway, but I don't want to throw parts at it to find a solution.
Everything was fine until I bought a set of extenders for the rift headset. After adding these (probably a coincidence) I started getting artifacts/tearing while playing games. I removed the extensions, and they still persisted. The artifacts/tearing occur during Rift play, as well as normal games. I sent the card to Gigabyte for warranty work, and they say everything is fine.
I just got it back and installed it, and now it is actually worse, the artifacts are showing up under normal desktop usage (web browsing, etc).
I have the latest Nvidia drivers installed, latest BIOS, etc.
I have tried under clocking the RAM, nothing. I haven't tried under clocking the CPU yet, but once I figure out how to do that I will.
What else should I check? Or any tests that I could run to narrow down a hardware issue?
System consists of the following:
ASRock B450M PRO4
AMD R5 2600 (stock cooler)
MyDigitalSSD BPX Pro 512 NVME
Patriot Viper 4 8GB (2 x 4GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3000 (PC4 24000)
Gigabyte 1060 3GB Windforce
Corsair CX430 (the only part reused from a previous build, probably nearing 5 years old, now)
Could the PSU potentially causing the issue? I know it's right on the threshold of being enough for the GPU I have, so I have been wanting to upgrade it anyway, but I don't want to throw parts at it to find a solution.