Is my EVGA GTX970 broken?

[Revvvhead]

Bought my GTX970 SSC about a month ago off a friend who was leaving the country, so I don't have the invoice for it.
Last night whilst playing BF4 I got a lot of red blocks on the screen.
These blocks are now on almost everything except my desktop.
I've tried:
Rolling back driver,
switching back to win 7 from win 10.
switching to another display port
switching to another PCI-E slot

Flashing blocks everywhere.

I've started an RMA with EVGA.
Has anyone else had a similar experience.
Any advice welcome.

[kalniel]

Probably broken, but you can try downclocking to see if that makes it more stable.

[rapidracer10]

Should be able to work on stock clocks, else its broken
Probably due to long term overheating due to a design flaw in the cooling i read about EVGA 970s

[DownBringer]

Card is still inside it's warranty. Recommend giving EVGA a ring to get it swapped out. They do an advanced RMA if you supply a Credit Card number where they will send out a replacement before you send yours back to them.

[Revvvhead]

Took a bit of hassle with EVGA trying to get a guest RMA. Got it all sorted with a very helpful rep in the end.
Card on it's way back to Germany for replacement.

[DownBringer]

Took a bit of hassle with EVGA trying to get a guest RMA. Got it all sorted with a very helpful rep in the end.
Card on it's way back to Germany for replacement.

I always find EVGA to be incredibly helpful on the support side of things. Hoping to pick myself up a 970 in next few months, and EVGA is preferred. Despite the fact that the MSI Gaming 4G and the ASUS Stix cards look nicer from the side panel.

[Revvvhead]

Asus cards look good, but I found their GPU's to be fragile. I had 2 HD7970's one after the other and both were faulty. I love the Asus MoBo and monitors but wouldn't touch another one of their graphics cards.