I got this card back at the end of December and it has run like a dream since. Hell, the first week I had it I put it through countless hours playing No Man's Sky and the temps were in the maybe mid to high 60s when peaking and I had no issues and haven't since. I have never OC'd it as well. Well, today when I was playing Rocket League (uses around 40% of my GPU) my PC froze out of nowhere and small white symbols filled both of my monitors (). I knew right away they were artifacts based on what I had seen before. Afterward, my PC took two reboots to come back on then when I reloaded rocket league after making sure everything was stable it happened a second time. This time It took about 6 reboots and failed repair attempts by Windows to get it to come back on. Everything was fine after this and I could play again. But, I did notice that my temps were higher (mid 70s on Apex Legends) than normal because for some reason Precision X1 was using the default fan curve and not the custom one I had set.
 
I have never had this happen to me before so my question is what do I do from here? Do I continue using this card, RMA it, troubleshoot more? I just feel like I need to address this because I don't want to be using a possibly faulty card.
 

PC Specs:

• ASUS Z170-A Mobo
• i7 6700K @ 4.4GHz
• Cryorig H7 CPU Cooler
• EVGA RTX 2080Ti Black Edition
• 2x8GB TridentZ @ 2800MHz
• 1TB WD Blue HDD
• 500GB Samsung Evo SSD
• Corsair RM750x 80+ Gold PSU 

 
All of these parts minus the RAM and GPU are from October 2016. What do you think the issue with my PSU could be? So far it has never been a problem for me.

Run a few stress tests like 3Dmark  & the EVGA OC Scanner  ,etc...etc.. and see if it does it again., to test out the card itself.
 
 

aka_STEVE_b
Run a few stress tests like 3Dmark  & the EVGA OC Scanner  ,etc...etc.. and see if it does it again., to test out the card itself.
 
 

At work right now, but I'll try 3DMark when I get home. I tested this under 3DMark when I got it a few months back and it went very well. I'll check out the OC Scanner as well since I see it has an artifact scanner

Definitely looks like the card needs to be rma'd. Are you powering the gpu with a single pci-e cable that splits into dual 6+2's, or are you using two separate pci-e cables to power the card?

dwhit95

Sajin
Definitely looks like the card needs to be rma'd. Are you powering the gpu with a single pci-e cable that splits into dual 6+2's, or are you using two separate pci-e cables to power the card?

I'll look into an RMA when I get home from work. I use a single pci-e that splits into dual 6+2's.

Try two separate cables before you rma.

A lack of power could be causing the card to become unstable which is causing the artifacts. Giving the card proper power could resolve the issue if that is the case. No, the card isn't already damaged just from displaying artifacts.

hey man! i dont have an evga card, got zotac 2080ti and i was also artifacting today randomly. had the card for 2 days and was worried it was a bad one. I had the latest drivers which are the 418 ones, and i decided to go back to the 417 ones and the artifacting hasn't happend once since i did that today. I feel like the 418 drivers might be causing your artifacting

dwhit95
This happened on 417 drivers though. I was using 417.71

wierd then, im not sure, i was getting it on the 418 drivers. does it happen still on your 418 drivers?

Check cpuz to see who your memory vendor is...