[SOLVED] Graphical Artifacts, Gigabyte says GPU is fine

Jan 25, 2019
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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.
 
Solution
this for percarrp reason on power https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/perfcap-reason-pwr.237026/ it show max power limit gpu coild han dle and tyhe gpu-z rendering will put a load on the gpu so not doing the same thing .


The OCCT psu test reported no errors for the 10 minutes.

I ran Furmark and had GPU-Z monitoring the GPU, and under the "PerfCap Reason" section, it listed "PWR" most of the time as the result.

Safe to say that my PSU is dying? I checked my purchase history, and it is right about 5 years old.
 


Thank you.

I have a bunch of BB gift cards, so I'll likely get a Corsair RMx 750, since I can pick it up today and it's the only above entry level PSU mine stocks locally.
 
Well, the new PSU did not fix the issue.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled Nvidia drivers, no luck. I've tried unplugging my Rift, thinking maybe that was doing something to cause the problems, no luck.

What other options do I have? What other tests could I run to ensure that everything else is up to snuff?
 


I don't think there is, at least I have not installed anything myself to overclock. I don't overclock anything ever so I don't run those type of applications.

Any tips on what I can use to underclock the card? Like I said, I don't typically mess around with that so I don't know how to do it lol.

Thank you
 


Sorry, I didn't know there was a rendering test within GPU-Z.

I installed MSI afterburner, ran the GPU-Z rendering, and tried under clocking both core and memory speeds, with no change.

Any other ideas?
 
I decided to reinstall Windows, since I didn't really think it's a hardware issue.

Everything was fine, no artifacting on the generic windows drivers. The moment I was able to connect to the internet and Windows downloaded drivers for me, instantly started getting them again.

I don't remember what the oldest driver's were to rollback to. Any thoughts?