Identifying issues with artifacts on displays and overall system performance
Identifying issues with artifacts on displays and overall system performance
Hi, This is my current PC build: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/qfRG4s . I have been having some random issues recently. Some of them are benign, some point to very serious failure. 1stly some info and history: the whole system isn't build as a package, I've been adding to it constantly over the years core system(cpu/mobo/ram) were bought in 2018, recent components are the TUF 3080oc, bought July 2022 and the PSU bought Aug 2022. CPU usually runs on an all-core overclock at 4.7Ghz at 1.28v core voltage which gets bumped to 4.8Ghz at 1.29v during colder seasons. Tested/benchmarked on higher freq and voltages upto [email protected] but never ran it daily. Every new OC change is always followed by a 30minute Cinebench run and then normal games and regular usage to confirm stability. Recently I've seen the CPU struggle to hold a stable 150+ fps on PUBG and similar battle-royale games so this winter I decided to push the system to drive a daily 5ghz OC at 1.35v. Which did confirm my CPU struggling and being a bit out of date. So during recent cold season I decided to try and run a regular 5Ghz OC, which I achieved at [email protected]. I've been running the same for 2 months now, and Temperatures dont go beyond high 70s(77-78C) during gaming and 91-92 during synthetic benchmarks. GPU runs its factory setting and the GPU switch is turned to the Performance mode. GPU driver installs get a DDU before every install and I rarely update them since I dont try newer games so I tend to keep to older well performing versions. currently been running 522,25 from October 2022 which did include some performance updates to many games. changing from the old to new GPU i wanted to do a fresh windows install but didnt since both GPUs were Nvidia(previous was 1050ti) so I thought just a DDU would be good enough. I never had stability issues but recently after the recent overclocks to 5ghz I've seen general random behavior, PC crashing while loading a Youtube video, Youtube/similar pages in general being slow to load sometimes etc etc. all of which i accounted to my windows install getting messy since it was last formatted/installed mid 2021. I initially planned to do a fresh install when I got the GPU but then couldnt since I didnt have my SSD backed up. PUBG as a whole is a nightmare and crashes sometimes which i accounted to it being a poorly made game. Also CSGO had a crash recently(just the game) which never crashes, i mean this might be the 1st crash in a couple years. Yesterday I saw my PC suddenly exhibit blocky artifacts on screen. It happened as I launched PUBG and alt tabbed to Firefox. It was not running anything taxing before, was just sitting idle. Artifacts didnt cover the whole screen and were just few handful scattered around the screen. But I panicked and did an immediate restart and also pulled back the CPU overclock to [email protected]. Before the restart I did note the temperatures none of which seemed to be out of ordinary or even hot for that matter. Everything was under 60 hovering around 50ish, this includes GPU memory, hotspot and CPU/GPU core temperatures. I have all of these set as tray icons from HWinfo so i can check quickly left to right, Yellow=GPU power, Purple ones are GPU memory Junc, GPU Hotspot and GPU temperature. Green is SSD temp, Blue ones are CPU core, Cpu clock and CPU package Now since for the last 48 hours or so the System is running fine without any odd behavior(apart from the slow website loading problem which might not even be a system issue just an ISP issue). Now on to the trouble shooting. Since the 30 series have had issues with memory and after seeing the display artifacts I'm very troubled thinking the GPU might be the problem. GPU is new and under warranty so GPU being a dud might just mean a simple RMA but I live at pretty remote place and RMA would mean not just months of wait(all high value cards in India go directly to Taiwan for RMA work) but also multiple trips to the next metropolitan city to submit/retrieve the actual card. I ran MSI Kombustor Furmark Donut-6500MB to test GPU memory and video artifacting but didnt see any for the 10minutes I ran it. I've also played games for 5-8 hours since then and nothing odd happened/had no issues. The only GPU related issue I found in Event Viewer around the screen-artifact incident were these 4, the last one "Error Occurred on GPUID: 100" had quite a dozen or more events the 1st 3(restarting, reset, resetting) had 1 event each I haven't been able to get the panicky feeling out of my head since I saw artifacts on screen and in my head I'm always going "please dont be a bad GPU." Is there anything else I can test for? Could there be any other reason for the display artifacts like CPU OC, system RAM or just windows/Driver issue? Thanks in advance for your help.
GPU/vBIOS is already included in the latest release, no further updates needed. The driver I use has been checked thoroughly and no new patches are available. Intel drivers are up-to-date, just a routine check is sufficient. Regarding the multiplane overlay, it might cause sudden video artifacts—consider testing it in isolation. For more clarity on the issue, you could run additional diagnostics or compare performance metrics.
Drivers not only enhance performance but also resolve problems. Running DDU before any driver setup is ineffective—it's useful when facing issues or going back to an earlier version. Windows receives updates as well. Occasionally these updates cause complications. You can perform these checks... CPU: Prime95 Small FTT Prime 95 Large FTT OCCT CPU OCCT Linpack Cinebench R23 loop GPU: MSI Kombustor FurMark Unigine Superpossition Unigine Heaven 3DMark stress test OCCT GPU GPU MemTest Video Memory Stress Test RAM: PassMark Memtest86 Memtest86+ Prime95 Blend (also tests the CPU) PSU: OCCT PSU Prime95 + MSI Kombustor Prime95 + Unigine Heaven OCCT (CPU or Linpack) + Kombustor or Furmark Misc: - LatencyMon - wPrime - Aida Stress Test / Burn test