Damaged GFX-card or AGP-port? (Fx5700 Ultra)

Hi
Before I decide to return my gfx-card to the store where I bought it I thought I'd ask you experts what you think of the problem. I would hate to get a new card back and still have "the problem". This is what happened...
Few days back decided to play some CounterStrike: Source, as I've done hundreds of times with this comp. and setup before. Suddenly my FPS drops to 5 and ping goes up to 600+. I checked Task-manager and CPU-usage was going from 20% to 99% with like 1 second intervals. Rebooted etc. and decided it was a problem with CS:s. I tried watching a movie and same thing happened (CPU going crazy and FPS dropping/topping all the time).
I then tried drivers, update MB etc. Nothing worked. So I put in my old GFX-card instead, a GF 4400 Ti, and everything worked like a charm! Video ran smooth and rames ran ok (obviously not as good as with the fx5700). I tried installing my FX5700 again, thinking it might have been a temporary thing, but the problem was/is still here.
Now my GF5700 Ultra ran at 8x AGP, and the old 4400 Ti only ran 4x AGP. So what do you guys think the problem might be ... GFX-card breakdown or AGP (MB) that no longer can handle 8x AGP (for whatever reason)?
Sorry about the long post but I thought I'd give as much info as possible in my first post
and no, no overclocking of any kind have been done. I tried to downclock the 5700 Ultra but problem stayed the same.
Anyone wanna give it a shot or do you need additional info?
Thanks

yeh ok. I have kind of found the problem, but will post my PSU-specs first for you to comment (I can always buy a better one anyway)
300W
+5V - 30A
+12V - 10A
-5V - 0.5A
-12V - 0.8A
+3.3V - 14A
+5V grnd - 2A
My GFX-card is broke tho. I just tested it on my buddies computer, who has a 400W PSU, and he got EXACTLY the same problems as I've experienced. What I find particularly odd tho is that I've been having mouseproblems for about 1 month - mouse going crazy once every hour (differs) by lagging ALOT (like the CPU didn't give it any room to even calculate movement etc.). Also I could not boot my computer when mouse was connected to the PS2-port (only USB worked). When my buddy tried my GFX-card he got not only the exact same graphical bugs but his mouse went crazy too - lagging and wouldn't boot if it was connected to PS2-port.
I find this very odd but atleast it proves that the GFX-card is the problem (but how can it be creating PS2-port shutdowns?).
Think I should invest in a new PSU to be on the safe side tho? I will return my GFX-card to get a new one ofcourse. Hope this is not a reaccuring thing for this model.
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