Windows 7 Artifacts

Joshua1187

Joshua1187

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Hi,

System Specs:
AMD FX 8350
Radeon HD 5970
6 GB ram Ripjaw
Win 7 64

Recently in the last few months little confetti like squares have been showing up in random windows. I tested a game (FFXIV ARR) and it worked fine highest settings so i figured it was just a glitch. Progressively its been getting worse. I tried to play LoL for the first time a few weeks ago and it was all screwed up so i downloaded the latest drivers and it fixed the problem.. kind of.. Well as of last night the problem is worse, artifacts everywhere, its miserable. I tried to run Memtestcl to check my GPU memory but it crashes at startup. I'm guessing my GPU is toast but im not really excited about replacing it.

Current temps HWMonitor:
CPU 36C
GPU 54C

Any ideas?
 
I figured as much. I don't have another card laying around so i need to be sure enough the card is dunzo before i buy another to rep it with.
 
well then I'll need to buy one.. I'm thinking the Radeon R9 290X. Seems to be the current AMD flagship card and should last me a few years well into the newer future games. Im not up to date though with the new technology though. Is R9 replacing HD?
 
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