4650 artifact problems

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kurahk7
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4650 artifact problems

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hey guys.....about 4 months ago, i purchased sapphire ati radeon hd 4650 512mb gddr3 with hdmi pcie 2 x16 from newegg, ever since, whenever i open up a game and start playing, i experience heavy artifacts flashing everywhere, whenever i play a video on full screen, i either crash or artifact till the driver crashes (same for gaming) so, i decided to upgrade my power supply thinking that was the cause so i purhcased a diablotek 450 watt psu (original liteon 300watt), which still did not correct any problems what should i do?
my specs: amd athlon 64 x2 6000+ (no overclock)
sapphire ati radeon hd 4650 (no overclock)
gigabyte ga-ma78gm-us2h
3gb samsung ddr2 pc-5300
diablotek 450 watt psu
toshiba dvd supermulti drive
old sony case
seagate 80gb ide 5400rpm
seagate 500gb baracuda 7200rpm sata
running windows 7 rtm x64 (currently, tried this card on xp and vista yielding the same results)
any help would be appreciated
Intel Core i5 750
ASUS nVidia GeForce 9800gt Glaciator Fansink
Msi P55-GD55
4GB OCZ Plantium PC3-10666 (7-7-7-20 2t)
OCZ ModXStream 700 Watt Semi-Modular
Toshiba DVD Spermulti Drive SATA 2
Antec 900
Hitachi 1TB 32mb 7200RPM SATA2
Running Windows 7 Ultimate x64
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Re: 4650 artifact problems

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Well if you have had the same results in multiple computers I would have to say you got a bad card. I would contact saphire and rma it.
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