Hello all, I'm new to these forums and mainly posting here because recently I've had an issue with my new laptop. Warning, long story below, skip to last paragraph for summary and question.
ASUS G75VW-NH71
NVIDIA GEFORCE 670M
i73630QM
1920x1080 resolution
I bought an ASUS G75VW-NH71 with NVIDIA 670M from Newegg about a month and a half ago. This is my first gaming computer in quite a few years and I was totally infatuated with it and in heaven for the first month. Well basically in heaven until Monday night at midnight to be exact.
Saw the new drivers for the 670M and installed them immediately as I was waiting for Bioshock Infinite to finish updating on steam. After starting up the game with Ultra settings and I noticed a misplaced vertex or two. I freaked out and rebooted my computer thinking it was just the new driver and I didnt reboot after installation due to excitement. Started the game back up in High after reboot and everything was all better. After playing for a few hours I noticed the spikes protruding out of the environment again. Bummed out I saved and quit and checked the cpu and gpu temps. Everything was pretty normal, CPU at ~60C and GPU at 72C. So I turned the computer down for the night and left it.
The next morning I started noticing it in Medium, clean uninstalled the drivers in safemode and reinstalled. Still artifacting, now on the desktop. Reinstalled windows, artifacting in the logon screen. Updated drivers again to no prevail. The artifacting hasn't increased, infact I notice it very seldom, but for now I have powered off the computer and let it sit.
My question is, why is it artifacting all of the sudden? Everything was fine and dandy for the past month. The temps look normal and I checked logs and didn't notice any spikes at all. Was it a software thing? Did I wait too long after noticing the issue and cause permanent damage? Is there any way I can fix this without RMA? Please assist me if you can, I dont mind RMAing it, but if at all possible I'd like to avoid it. Let me know if there are any programs I should download to record logs if necessary. If I do have to RMA, how long does the RMA process usually take, and how do I go about starting it?
Thanks in advance,
Kristopher