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I've tried from HDMI and Display port, but I do not have a DVI cable unfortunately. Although, I might still have a VGA to DVI adapter, and I do have a VGA laying around.

OK :(
You're the third person and 2nd moderator from different forums to say that so I guess I'll bite the bullet and get it started. I appreciate you taking a look anyway!

I'm going to the different forum posts I made for help and updating with my solution that I've finally found. After exchanging the GPU with the merchant I purchased it from (so glad they had another one in inventory) I came home and experienced the same issues. Now more than ever I knew the issue was related to the GPU, but lo and behold the GPU alone is not to blame.
 
I noticed with no driver installed I was able to get video output from this card. After doing lots of research I found some similar problems to what I was experiencing due to an HDCP handshake issue. When installing the driver the card again went to black screen, but by unplugging the HDMI and re-plugging it in after a few seconds, problem solved temporarily. So currently, I have the most recent drivers installed and have been gaming with no issues. The only thing is I have to unplug and replugin the HDMI cable every time I start up, reset, wake from sleep, etc. the computer. Looks like it's time for a new monitor too!

Doesn't quite make sense to me because your old GPU also used HDCP. It has unfortunately been baked into video cards for two decades, so unless you changed your monitor I would suspect it's the NVIDIA driver at fault, or possibly with how the driver is handling HDCP on that card.