I had GSOD and artifacts every third /fourth day got sick of it and I RMA.
Had my new HIS card for a week now, everything is fine so far crossed fingers :D
Well, I decided to go ahead with the RMA .
They told me theres nothing wrong with the card as we tested it for 6 hours. I emailed them back and said I was not happy and there is a fault in the card, then they said we will send it to HIS for further testing.
Today I got an email stating...
Did you get any artifacts during the six months?
I also think it's not my card. I never overclock and my temperatures are always low around
36 to 40.
I play games a lot and the highest it went was around 70 in a few hours of gaming.
I spoke too soon went to 10.12hotfix to 10.10e with both drivers freezing on me.
I decide to go back to my old drivers that came with the video card and see from there
I installed those drivers and had my machine stable for 5 days know. touch Wood:D
Before that I had BOSD, freezing in games, artifacts and everything else that you can
imagine
I never overclock I only use MSI afterburner just for temperature readings
Funny thing happened. I removed MSI afterburner, restarted and 2 minutes later I got the artifacts again