New graphics card is apparently dying.

Now this is a surprise. Looks like this GeForce GT 730 really was defective after all.

I was playing a little with Mac OS X, then due to chipset compatibilty problems i decided to go back to Windows 10.

It was finishing installing, so i left the PC alone...

When i came back, turned on the monitor, it looked a broken TV or something: Showing all sorts of colorful artifacts, blinking...

My advice to everyone here: Avoid NVidia cards if you can.

Now i'm back to the old but trusty AMD Radeon 6450! 😃

Edit: I was wrong. The colored artifacts were temporary, and are now gone.

Edit 2: I found that it is actually the monitor, it shows visual glitches even if disconnected from the PC.

Avoid nVidia cards?

Astonishingly practical advice. (No, I'm not an nVidia fan. I admit that my most recent Radeon was a 7970. Huge, power hungry, but fast. My favorite 3D graphics processors were made by 3dfx. The Voodoo 1 card did great things with the original DOS based Tomb Raider game.)

Why avoid Nvidia cards? They are fine! I have a GT 730 and a GTX 750 Ti and they run flawlessly. What brand is it?

As i said, i was wrong about this. It was not an issue with the card, but with the monitor and/or It's cable.


But when i first encountered the issue, i thought the GPU was the culprit.

I have put the 730 back into the PC and It's working fine.

Why avoid Nvidia cards? They are fine! I have a GT 730 and a GTX 750 Ti and they run flawlessly. What brand is it?

It's from Zogis, model ZOGT730-2GD3H12.

I didn't mean to sound like an nvidia hater or something like that.

As i said, i was wrong about this. It was not an issue with the card, but with the monitor and/or It's cable.


But when i first encountered the issue, i thought the GPU was the culprit.

I have put the 730 back into the PC and It's working fine.

Oh whoops, I did not read that part That's great that it is working fine!

It's from Zogis, model ZOGT730-2GD3H12.

I didn't mean to sound like an nvidia hater or something like that.

I didn't think you were a Nvidia hater.

As i said, i was wrong about this. It was not an issue with the card, but with the monitor and/or It's cable.


But when i first encountered the issue, i thought the GPU was the culprit.

I have put the 730 back into the PC and It's working fine.

You could have removed the offending sentence when you edited the post. Or would you have regarded removing it as unethical?