So I put in a new 1070 TI last week and I've been having graphical problems since, the problems usually arise when playing videogames and are usually infrequent and inconsistent, ranging from a few times an hour, to one every few hours, to none at all for a day of gaming. In some cases they have also occurred while watching Youtube videos or using Paint.NET; and in exactly one instance, several times a minute while idle/browsing until the system was powered off (even artifacting once during the 'Shutting Down' screen).
They come mostly in the form of brief artifacts on the screen, black bars for no more than a split second which displace or shuffle parts of the screen around them. A less common variant is showing a full black screen for 1-3 seconds, these are for DVI. When using an HDMI cable, a new problem occured, showing a black screen until the monitor is turned off and back on. Also they seem to become significantly less common (if not completely gone) if VSync is on, I have yet to see one with VSync; but I have not played much with VSync either because I've been playing Source games lately and Source VSync fucks with your mouse movement.
Solutions attempted were complete reinstall of GPU drivers using a driver sweeper to wipe out the old ones and disconnecting from the internet so Windows cannot download defaults because I install the new ones, and reseating the card on the second motherboard slot. The first did nothing all, and the second appears to have reduced the frequency of black bars (also have not seen them while browsing or watching videos) and I have not seen the black screen at all on DVI yet, I haven't tried using the HDMI again though. Oh, and I have ruled out heating issues, Speccy shows the card rarely to exceeds the high 50's even under load, and the 1070 fans don't even kick on until you've beat the 60's.
I'm wondering if this is a defective GPU problem or an obsolete monitor problem. The monitor is a ASUS VE276 (60Hz) and the GPU is a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti.
Okay. Have you tried the 1070 Ti in a different machine all together?
I'm leaning towards DOA GPU but let's really rule out of everything else vs GPU.
I have not, but I don't really have another machine to try it in. I could call my dad and see if he'd try it in his computer, but he doesn't really game anymore and it is so inconsistent that you may need to play for several hours before seeing an artifact appear.
Artifacts on the screen most of the time is the fault of the video card. If it was a driver issue, you'd be seeing a problem with the whole image together (like all black screen or low-res screen). The only way to rule out the monitor is plug it into a different one. If you don't have a spare monitor, but have a TV, plug it into the TV and see if the problem is still there.
Or better yet, take out the video card entirely and hook the monitor up to a video port on your motherboard instead.
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