Green / purple blocks appearing on output in Final Cut/Motion

I'm experiencing distorted images / breakup of both my timeline monitor, (in software) and video monitor (via Blackmagic card). The distortion takes the form of large, random groups of green and purple pixels, or large solid horizontal bars. The problem is at it's worst when applying filters such as 'dazzle', 'light rays' and 'outerglow', and occurrs both in Final Cut 6.0.1 and Motion 3.0.1.
I have read similar posts, and the most likely culprit seems to be the ATI GFX card I have installed. Can anyone else confirm this, or has anyone experienced a similar problem?
Lee.
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A friend of mine has a similar problem once in the summer when his appartment was very hot. We figured that the heat was just too much and so we replaced the standard cooler of the ATI X1900 card with another one. Since then the problem never occured again.
Filters like 'dazzle', 'light rays' and 'outerglow' are quite demanding effects on the graphics card. When you use these plugins, the graphics card really heats up.
On a PC such problems are quite common, but on a Mac you don't see that a lot.
You problem might be gone with another cooler, but I can't promised that.
You can try if you graphics card overheats, when you open the side on your Mac Pro and put a (big) fan right there to give the whole system a cool down. Then run Motion and look if the problems still occurs. If so: Get an better cooler for your X1900. If not: You might also have a hardware problem.
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