Hello ladies and gents, so I've been toying around with my new build I built about two weeks before Christmas and about 7 days ago my computer showed signs of awful artifacts. So naturally I did everything then decided to replace my graphics cards, no change, I decided it might be my ram so I switched out between different sticks in the system, no change. I took the whole thing apart, re-applied thermal paste and strapped it all back up and no change, it shows up on every single PCIe slot and every display output / resolution. Now I've come to the conclusion, It's the mobo or the cpu.
I'm running: GTX 780 Ti, 1000watt Enermax 80+ gold certified PSU, Asus rampage IV Black edition, iy 4930k @ stock ( I was running 4.8 ghz at 1.55 volts but decided that's too many volts for a 24/7 build and even tried 1.585 volts for 5 ghz and said nono to that. It was stable but way too many volts, didn't get above 75 Celsius but meh, too high volts and temp.) 16GB of corsair Vengeance pro 1866 mhz ram. As I said I tested the ram and the gpu and it wasn't either, so I am wondering what could be causing this? **ALSO** It only shows this when playing youtube videos, booting into windows 8.1, anything to deal with google chrome, any game, and some folder icons have weird color pixels on them. I can run ANY GPU Benchmark and not have an issue, I tried a different monitor too and nothing. I'm running windows 8.1 x64 and windows 7 x64. Could my being extremely dumb and pushing the CPU to the max for the hell of it have caused this? Or may I have bad PCIe slots? I've tried them all, and the same thing with everyone, I can post videos or screenshots or anything that may help you. PLEASE HELP! Thank you :)! I'm willing to try anything to get this fix, and worst case scenario I can RMA the mobo / cpu / return the PSU. THANKS AGAIN!
