Need some help/advice, graphics issue (PC)

[Apie]

Overclocking increases the voltage to the processor, which makes it heat up faster. Blue screens and corrupted graphics are a symptom of an overheating CPU or GPU. You have the system overclocked too high for the cooling you have attached if it is doing that. Continuing to run it in that situation could cause damage to the graphics card or CPU. Stock fans are usually insufficient for overclocking, and you need to be really careful about airflow inside your case when doing it.

You said you set it back to normal, but how many times did you run it overclocked and get BSOD? If it's still having problems, you likely fried part of the graphics card.

Hi,

I really wish I had known it was more complicated than just changing the setting. It did give a warning before my settings saved, but I figured it was a standard warning, so I hit OK. To answer your question, I ran FFXIV for hours and easily 11-12 BSoD. What I would do is after every BSoD, I would reduce random settings in the FFXIV graphics options, hoping I would reach a point where it would stop doing the BSoD. It was kinda dumb of me to do that, but I thought it would work out.

Before I switched it out with the old graphics card a couple of hours ago, I was playing FFXIV and it did a similar graphic glitch to the FFXI one, except I couldn't see any extra NPCs and it didn't do the strobe-light effect, but all the colors were messed up with missing graphics all over everything and it made a loud echoed spell effect, but only once, through the speakers as soon as it flipped out. Scared the crap out of me so badly. I had seen The Conjuring for the first time last night, I didn't need anymore scares. LOL

So yeah, this is gonna be a harsh lesson. Not because I have to buy a new graphics card, but because I have to tell my wife that I have to buy a new graphics card and she didn't even want the new PC to begin with, I'm dead.