Graphics card dying?

[danbur2]

Hi Everyone,

I have been having issues when gaming lately that i get a weird flickering in some of the pixels. I took a screen shot (http://imgur.com/dj9xsXZ) you can see in this picture there are three small squares that are on the wood panel inside the red circle. These pop up in different places and flicker quickly. Sometimes there will be a lot of them and the cover about 10-20% of the screen.

i have an Radeon HD 6800GPU with the most up to date drivers. According to hw info the temp stays below 87 C. It is usually worse than in the pictures and there will occasionally be lens flair looking objects as well that flicker on and off.

Is there anything i can do to fix this or is this just a sign that my graphics card is starting to die? Its about two and half years old at this point. Thanks in advance for any advice!

 

[lp231]

So just in Bioshock Infinite or all games as well as during web browsing?
Have you clean the dust out of your video card? Run some graphic stress test and see if it still produces those artifacts.

 

[danbur2]

All games, its also crashed twice in about two hours. I'll try to clean it out with some compressed air tomorrow and see if that helps. Web browsing and anything other than gaming works fine and has no artifacts

 

[lp231]

Ok so it seems only when the GPU is being stressed caused these artifacts. Yes clean out the dust and see if that helps.

 

[AntonM95]

If U have OC the card please revert the main settings and see if still happen
if U don't ,clean the card and MB from dust by compressed air but be careful for the card fans don't let the air make it spin