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Originally Posted by Lsdmeasap
Some not all silent pipe cards have similar issues, ... Artifacts and stripping is memory and or core overheating, and for you to see it already at windows loading screen is for sure not a good sign for that specific card model
At the very least if you cannot get a different model, put a FAN on the heatsinks
... my previous knowledge of GFX cards and silent pipe performance, and artifacting due to heat issues
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I have to agree with
Lsdmeasap. I have a Gigabyte GV-RX80256D Radeon X800 which showed the same symptoms. I got a Zalman VF700-AlCu VGA Cooler to replace the massive silent-pipe (SP) on the card. When I started to remove the SP, I noticed, to my horror, that the SP did not touch most of the memory chips, and it only barely touched a very small surface of the the GPU!
With the Zalman Cooler, you also get heatsinks for the memory chips, and after applying the cooler + heatsinks, I had no further problems.
Some of my friends have had similar experiences with SP cards, so for me, as a rule, I get a GFX card with active cooling, or I add a 3rd party cooler to it.
I know this might sound silly, but have you tried to take compressed air and blow out any possible dust in the PCI-Express slot on the MB?