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Faulty card?

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HI,
Looking for some advice here. I built my system in November 2010 and although the system itself seems fine, whenever I play games I get glitches all over the place, even in Heaven benchmark.
Originally I ran XP Home and only really had Civ5 that used the graphics card to any extent. The game was always buggy and graphically glitchy, but I put this down to the game itself as a lot of people seem'd to be having the same issue.
I upgraded to Win7 64bit just before xmas and have found that no matter what I play, the graphics always glitch. From matches in FM 2012 to Skyrim, which I have just brought.
Do I have a problem with my card? Its never been overclocked (not sure how), and never seems to get too hot (max temp I've seen is 58 degrees).
It's reallyh bugging me now, as I want to get into Skyrim, but it's almost unplayable even with AA off and with lower settings. Still got the screen at 1920x1080 though.
Am I pushing the card too hard? Even with FM 2012??

Any help will be gratefully appreciated.
 
It might help if you upload some screen shots of the artifacts but if you card is faulty its mostly likely the ram that's corrupted. You could try rampping the fan up to 100% and see if the extra cooling helps (then scaling it back accordingly) but it sounds like you should get it returned and replaced.
 
To be honest I don't know how to do the screen shot thing. But from reading other posts, it seems to point to being a VRAM issue. Seems I might need to get in touch with MSI and get it returned. Hope they don't expect the original box.
 
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