Artifacts on boot

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OK, whats happening is I'm getting lots of small dots (of varying colour) on initial boot, then 1 small red dot on the windows loading screen which flashs away quite quickly. It then boots into windows and everything seems fine & dandy, thats until I load EvE Online, play for about 1minute and the screen starts flashing in different places, eventually the comp will just lockup and BSOD with an ATi driver error. I've reinstalled windows as well.

Does this sound like a graphics card duff?

system spec:
ASUS P5W DH Deluxe
Intel E6600
Corsair HX520 PSU
2gig Geil ram (can't remember which, but it has the orange ramsink sleeves on them)
Connect3d X1900XT
250gig seagate
 
Well I spoke to OCUK technical support & they said it was most likely the graphics card up the shoot. RMA on its way. having to use the old A64 3000+ with 1gb ram and an old X800pro for my gaming addication now ;(
 
na the old X800pro is an AGP, so eve now runs like a pig :s

Can they still RMA a X1900XT? if so im supprised as there out off production now?!
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I have no idea, either way it appears buggered, and its just within warranty.(nov 07 would be 1 year) if they don't have any of them in stock, i'm assuming they will give me an X1950XT, i don't know, tbh I don't care, as long as it can run eve ok.
 
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Ok got a reply today from OCUK, am being shipped a HIS ATI Radeon X1950 Pro ICEQ 3 V2 TURBO SILENT Heatpipe 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express), how comes I get a HIS card now? not that i'm complaining just intrested tbh.
 
the x1900xt i had was the 256meg version as I don't really require anymore due to my 17" screens going to a max res of 1280x1024, if you guys really think this is a downgrade what should I do?

think i paid £170 for the original btw, but can't confirm as I've lost the email in a reformat
 
well i've sent a webnote, but seeing as they have already sent the card, I fear it will probably fall on deaf ears (they sent the emails about it while I was at work).
 
okay guys, got a bit of good news, spoke to a nice chap named Ryan at OCUK, told him about the x1950pro not being as good as the x1900XT, he asked me what card I thought would be a suitible replacement, I said to him i don't really want to take the biscuit and ask for an x2900XT but there isn't anything else, so he offered the Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 2900 Pro SILENT Heatpipe 512MB GDDR3 VIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express), so all in all, thanks guys :) woot!
 
hmmm just had a thought, will the Corsair HX520 have enough guts to power all this.

ASUS P5W DH Deluxe
Intel E6600
X2900pro
2gig Geil ram
250gig seagate
2x80gig maxtor's
2x samsung DVD-R
SB audigy
 
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