Why do artifacts occur... Do they occur only in r9 series cards

[Sai Prathik]

Hey guys
I live in India my father is in US i will go to US in june
I want to buy a custom build pc
I heard abt artifacts in r9 280x (im afraid im planning to buy it)

Why do artifacts occur
My cpu fx 6300 mobo is asus m5a78lm usb 3.0 micro atx
I want to buy gigabyte r9 280x

Now the problem is
Will artifacts occur to my gpu is there any sure reason for it to occur

Bcoz wen i come back to India i cant return i

If they occur how to remove
And wat precautions are to be taken to prevent artifacts
Thnx for feedback

 

[Hello man]

Hey guys
I live in India my father is in US i will go to US in june
I want to buy a custom build pc
I heard abt artifacts in r9 280x (im afraid im planning to buy it)

Why do artifacts occur
My cpu fx 6300 mobo is asus m5a78lm usb 3.0 micro atx
I want to buy gigabyte r9 280x

Now the problem is
Will artifacts occur to my gpu is there any sure reason for it to occur

Bcoz wen i come back to India i cant return i

If they occur how to remove
And wat precautions are to be taken to prevent artifacts
Thnx for feedback

Too much heat can cause them, insufficient voltage, and or just general calculation errors.

Turning on MSAA can help.

 

[geofelt]

I had not heard about artifacts or other problems with the R9-280X.
Usually such issues are a lack of power or a driver or game patch issues.
In some cases the quality pf cards is poor.

I did some research and looked on newegg for R9-280X.
I filtered on the specific units with the most reviews.
The two top cards has about 32% bad reviews of 0 or 1 egg. Very disappointing.

I then did the same for a GTX770, a comparably performing card. The reviews were much better, averaging about 7% dissatisfied users with 0 or 1 egg.

Since you can not tolerate a RMA, I suggest you look at a GTX770 card instead.

 

[BeastLeeX]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161441

A card with no negative reviews, a great company, and probably the best heatsink/fan combo of any chip. Artifacts can happen on both AMD and Nvidia chips, it really depends on heat and sometimes the age of the card. A new chip should never artifact at stock speeds, and if it does, you probably have a false chip. Even a 5 years of age, a chip at stock clocks should not artifact.

 

[Sai Prathik]

Thnk u very much guys for ur feedback

 

[Hello man]

Thnk u very much guys for ur feedback

No problem. I am here to help.

 

[Sai Prathik]

Hey guys
I saw in youtube abt artifacts
One guy (agnikai353) also had problems pf artifacts
First he got artifact wen he turned on the fraps
Slowly artifacts occured even though he didnt have fraps


His gpu drivers were somthing 14.1 beta

He downgraded to 13.12
Then there were no artifacts

So i think artifacts also occur due to drivers
U can check the video in youtube

 

[BeastLeeX]

Well, i just bought a R9 290, and have had no problems, on 14.4 (not Beta). This thing gets hot, but is a beast, and i have not had any artifacting issues at all. I've pushed the clocks to 1115/1475 on stock voltages, and from what I can tell it is stable. And if the guy swapped drivers and had no issues, it was probably a problem with the software, not hardware.