Hi all, this might be a long post but I've got a bit of a nightmare on my hands here. I recently managed to get my hands on a pre-owned ASUS TUF RX 6700 XT from an eBay auction and ever since installation I have been experiencing issues which so far, strangely, are NOT occurring during gaming.
At completely random intervals my screen will sometimes cut to black for a split second and return, similar to what happens when GPU drivers are being installed. Some GUI elements of Windows 10 (such as the search bar) or any non-game programs that may be on screen (such as Firefox) will also sometimes "blank out". Sometimes these two issues accompany one another.
An "ohhhh dear" moment occurred last night which has lead me to write this post. Artifacts began to appear during an episode of the aforementioned issues 😞. These artifacts are picked up by screengrabs as seen here:
https://i.ibb.co/Bj7rmJR/Issue.png
As touched on briefly I haven't experienced any of these issues gaming, being able to happily play Grand Theft Auto V extensively on max settings without a hitch. The card has not been overclocked or underclocked. Temps are good when idle (around 35 celsius max) and under load (around 59 celsius max with GTA V). Since Monday I have:
Thanks in advance.
Specs (it's a bit of a dog, I know):
At completely random intervals my screen will sometimes cut to black for a split second and return, similar to what happens when GPU drivers are being installed. Some GUI elements of Windows 10 (such as the search bar) or any non-game programs that may be on screen (such as Firefox) will also sometimes "blank out". Sometimes these two issues accompany one another.
An "ohhhh dear" moment occurred last night which has lead me to write this post. Artifacts began to appear during an episode of the aforementioned issues 😞. These artifacts are picked up by screengrabs as seen here:
https://i.ibb.co/Bj7rmJR/Issue.png
As touched on briefly I haven't experienced any of these issues gaming, being able to happily play Grand Theft Auto V extensively on max settings without a hitch. The card has not been overclocked or underclocked. Temps are good when idle (around 35 celsius max) and under load (around 59 celsius max with GTA V). Since Monday I have:
- Reinstalled GPU drivers via DDU three times, including rolling back to a couple of older versions
- Updated monitor and motherboard drivers
- Flashed my BIOS
- Tried with FreeSync on and off
- Turned energy saving settings off on monitor
- Tried three different display cables (1 DisplayPort and 2 different HDMI); the DP cable is only about 3 months old
- Ran two separate 8-pin PCI-E cables to the card instead of one daisy-chained cable
Thanks in advance.
Specs (it's a bit of a dog, I know):
- i7 9700KF 3.6Ghz CPU
- ASUS TUF RX 6700 XT GPU
- Corsair RM650 80+ Gold PSU
- Crucial Ballistix 16GB DDR4 3200Mhz RAM
- Gigabyte Z390D Mobo
- Seagate Barracuda M.2 NVMe SSD
- LG Ultragear 144hz 1080p monitor