GTX 1070 Web Acceleration problems

[techguy11]

Hi all,
 

System Config:
i7 4790k

Asus Z97-A (latest bios, not much has changed on that chipset for months/years)

16GB 1866 MHz Kingston HyperX Fury DDR3

EVGA GTX 1070 FTW

Corsair CX600M (3 years old, so older version of the line)

HyperX 3k 240GB (boot), 850 Evo 1TB (games), Intel 180GB ssd (games), 2TB Seagate Barracuda

Dell S2716DG (1440P, 144Hz, Gsync) & Samsung Syncmaster secondary




Issue description:

I'm on my 3rd card from EVGA and getting quite annoyed by this issue, bought 10 series soon after launch, haven't had a perfect working card since . First card: Gaming artifacts, Second card: Hardware accelerated video/gifs artefacts for online content (note the issue was not present for locally stored media, downloaded and played through vlc etc), Third card: same as second card. At this point EVGA aren't really willing to give me an RMA citing that the issue recurring in the 3rd card is a result of an issue in my system configuration.

 

Some pictures can be seen below of the issue, basically, if I want to watch any web hardware accelerated content, like youtube, gifs on reddit, autoplay videos in articles (pesky bastards), artifacts will destroy the video/gif unless I turn off hardware acceleration. But I'd prefer not to keep that, because my GPU will always be more powerful than my CPU (too little has changed over the last 3 years to justify CPU upgrade for me lol) and I will be getting a faster internet connection in the coming months which will open up the possibility of 1440P or 4k streaming (youtube at least, I know netflix has various DRM limitations which exclude my system).

Screenshots
 

Troubleshooting completed

Rebooting pc

Reinstalled driver

Full DDU purge

RMA'd motherboard

RMA'd second 1070

 

Assorted notes

I've just purchased a new Cooler Master V750 power supply, so that if I need to I can swap it quickly. At this point I'm grasping at straws hoping my overall system hasn't been damaged by the Corsair unit, ie. that if I install the V750, then the issue will disappear *fingers crossed!*. Any other troubleshooting steps that can be offered before I break the seal and lose that $150? Much appreciated!

Edit: Improved formatting

 

[destroyer2039]

What version of Windows are you running?

 

[techguy11]

What version of Windows are you running?

I'm running the latest version of Windows 10 1709 Home, that said, the problem has persisted over multiple versions of Windows in the past and different installations of Windows on different drives.

 

[destroyer2039]

It doesn't sound like a power issue. It seems like it would be something in the GPU itself as web video decoding draws very little power compared to gaming. Try switching your monitor to the onboard graphics by plugging it into the connector on the motherboard to see if that fixes it.

 

[techguy11]

It doesn't sound like a power issue. It seems like it would be something in the GPU itself as web video decoding draws very little power compared to gaming.

Fair, having RMA'd the first card with this issue already and seeing the issue repeat with the second card, EVGA tech support are blaming another component in my system other than the GPU since the card "passed their internal testing" oddly enough. They're also recommending a full Windows reset, however I've installed Windows on another SSD before and that's not mitigated the issue.