Hey guys, I have received my EVGA RTX 2080 Ti XC Ultra a couple days ago and ran a couple benchmarks and games, and it was apparently OK. However, this morning when I was working on some online spreadsheets and office stuff on Firefox it started artifacting as you can see in these imgur links:
 
To add a little more context: my previous card was a EVGA GTX 1080 FTW, which was running fine. I have sold it last week and was using the Intel iGPU on my i7 processor before the new card arrived. I have installed the RTX one with two power cables from my power supply, since I read beforehand that using a single cable could lead to issues. After that, I have uninstalled the old Intel and NVIDIA drivers with DDU and rebooted, but as I was about to install the new NVIDIA drivers, I have noticed that Windows had just automatically installed some drivers by itself. Apparently, DDU has not blocked Windows from installing drivers automatically. After that, I proceeded to install the new drivers and rebooted, and the card was working fine until this morning.
 
Running Unigine Heaven gave me different artifacts and the display started blinking and slowing down as if the PC was about to freeze. After that I have rebooted the PC several times and ran the same tests again and the artifacts wouldn't go away. Then I unistalled the Nvidia drivers with DDU and it is now apparently OK again. I have even tested it with Unigine Heaven and Rise of the Tomb Rider benchmarks and no artifacts whatsoever. I have tried to reproduce the same scenario again that started the artifacts by running the same browsers and spreadsheets, but it seems quite stable now.
My PC:

• i7 6700K with no OC atm
• 16GB RAM DDR @ 2400mhz
• Corsair 850w HX850i PSU
• Samsung 960 EVO SSD

Do you guys think this could have been a residual driver issue or a hardware-related one? I have heard that the first batches of RTX had some issues, but I thought that it was resolved by now. I'm a bit lost here.

bcavnaugh
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Age of your Corsair 850w HX850i PSU?
Motherboard Make and Model and is the Bios up to date?

Hi there! My PSU is roughly 4 months old.
Motherboard is a Gigabyte Z170X Gaming 5, witch was running a bios version from 2016. I have just updated it to the latest version (2018) after seeing your reply.
 
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I couldn't grab a screenshot from Unigine Heaven as it artifacted heavily and slowed down my PC, which made me reset it.

werbet

bcavnaugh
Welcome to the Forum
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Age of your Corsair 850w HX850i PSU?
Motherboard Make and Model and is the Bios up to date?

Hi there! My PSU is roughly 4 months old.
Motherboard is a Gigabyte Z170X Gaming 5, witch was running a bios version from 2016. I have just updated it to the latest version (2018) after seeing your reply.
 
New links here:
imgur.com/Gx80XN5
imgur.com/RtHWFAZ
imgur.com/G4rtgqv
 
I couldn't grab a screenshot from Unigine Heaven as it artifacted heavily and slowed down my PC, which made me reset it.

It looks like you will need to Open a Service Ticket to start an RMA Process.

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Glad to hear ddu fixed it. Hope it stays fixed.

Sajin
Glad to hear ddu fixed it. Hope it stays fixed.

Hey there. I have tested the card for roughly 3 hours with different benchmarks and tools, but I can't seem to reproduce the artifacts again.
Any ideas? I just want to be sure that the issue is gone for good.

werbet

Sajin
Glad to hear ddu fixed it. Hope it stays fixed.

Hey there. I have tested the card for roughly 3 hours with different benchmarks and tools, but I can't seem to reproduce the artifacts again.
Any ideas? I just want to be sure that the issue is gone for good.

Try running the unigine superposition benchmark on its 8k optimized preset 5 times in a row. See if that will cause it to artifact.
 

werbet
Do you think the artifacts could have been caused by a corrupt driver installation?

Possibly.