Possible GPU failure?

[Conorosullivann]

I've been advised that what is happening to my screen in the picture below is the result of a faulty GPU. I may be in denial, but I'm finding this hard to believe. It happened after loading up the game Red Orchestra 2 for the first time. The game crashed, and I received a error message saying "rogame.exe has stopped working" (This is a very common reason for RO2 crashing). Before running that I was able to run other games perfectly such as Arma2, which is a lot more graphically intense. If my GPU really is faulty, why would it only give up now? After a game that is not in any way hard for it to handle?

I should say that i only got all these parts a couple of days ago!

System specs:
Mobo: MSI Z97 PC MATE
CPU: i5 4460 (w/ stock heatsink)
RAM: 2x4GB Corsair XMS3 DDR3
PSU: Seasonic M12II Bronze evo edition (620w)
GPU: Asus R9 290

 

[bootcher]

Have you of overclocked it, or was it overclocked? It looks like artifacts from a too high overclock, or it is indeed damaged.

 

[Conorosullivann]

Have you of overclocked it, or was it overclocked? It looks like artifacts from a too high overclock, or it is indeed damaged.

It was not over clocked originally (as far as i'm aware), this is my GPU http://www.asus.com/ie/Graphics_Cards/R9290DC2OC4GD5/... However, I did think this might be a problem, so I stupidly went tinkering with the overclock settings, and now my screen looks pretty much like this

. Any idea if there is anyway to reset it all? I tried deleting + reinstalling drivers but that did not work.. I think i'm after messing up something real bad

 

[bootcher]

You can try to get an overclock program like msi afterburner and revert to your stock clock values. See if that helps.