It's once again time for me to ask you guys for some advice.
I've been using a stock gigabyte 7950 (wf3) for a while now. I had no serious complaints until this weekend. It really did treat me well.
And then... I started getting artifacts in both WoW and NFS:MW. This graphics card is running all stock speeds/voltages, and has never been attempted to OC in any way. I guess this image makes for the closest resemblance, although it wasn't that extreme the entire time. Still, it ended up being pretty bad.
Having recently purchased it, I can just go RMA it and stick my old GPU in the rig for a few weeks, but I figured I wouldn't enjoy using a 6670 for a few weeks. I got spoiled. Real quick.
I figured I'd try different drivers first, and see if that solved anything. Ended up trying the 13.2 beta release that's listed on AMD's website. I didn't have any artifacts after doing that, and have been able to play several games with expected performance. No artifacts, at all.
A normal person would be happy with that result. I am, however, expecting it to die on me any second and it's not exactly giving me peace of mind. Google searches resulted mostly in "On a non-OC card, that generally means it's dying on ya" - paraphrased.
Should I still expect this card to have issues? Should I RMA it? Should I just wait and see what happens? Can graphic drivers generally fix these types of issues?
Any insight is welcome!
Oh, I should mention the card never reached any extraordinary temperatures. I haven't seen it go above 70C, and I was experiencing these issues at around 50C. (At least, that's what GPU-Z claimed after alt tabbing.)