Emeka

bump... still happening with desktop for me

make a backup before u touch the thermal paste, learned that the hard way hope that helps :)

check that teh PCIe power connectors are fully seated and not melted or discolored. power issues can produce artifacts under load.

yeahhh pro tip: write down what u change. i didnt and had to redo driver update from scratch. exact same thing happened to my brand new build last month

been there man for me it was the extensoin. swapped it and boom, fixed good luck man!

lol same thing happened to me this. sooo much this

Any GPU overclock or memory overclock active?

been there man your BIOS observation is a good clue. if artifacts appear only after Windows loads the driver, but not in BIOS or in Safe Mode (which uses the Microsoft Basic Display Adapter), that leans towards driver/sotfware ;) if they…

lol same thing happened to me reset any overclock or undervolt, especially memory clock... artifacts that look like small colored blocks are often VRAM instability, and a driver update can change memory behavior enough to tip a marginal…

Test with a second display output or a different port. If artifacts move with the screen content in screenshots, it's rendering (GPU). If they don't appear in a screenshot but do on the monitor, the cable, port or monitor itself is…

for me it was the driver... swapped it and boom, fixed worked for me anyway 🤷