Haunted motherboard

Having trouble with a new computer and can't figure it out.  Haven't built a computer since the old athlon days, but it shouldn't be this hard in my opinion.
specs:
a64 3200 with zalman hs+fan
MSI K8T Neo-FIS2R
2x512 Corsair value select DDR400 (in slots 1&2)
p80 SATA 7200RPM 120GB
Leadtek gf4200ti 128 MB
Win XP SP1
Antec true 480 (22a, 38a, 30a)
1 CD-R
1 floppy
no overclocking of anything
symtoms:  on a cold boot everything works fine until I start to play almost any 3D game.  Surfing and emailing and such are fine. Worst culprit is BF:V.  Little blue dots might appear after a while.  Textures will go all while after a while.  There will be screen "tearing" where objects continue to the side of the screen.  This may or may not crash my system, but eventually it just becomes unplayable and I exit the game.  I can exit the game, but then my computer is stuck in slow-mode.  The screen flashes between my desktop and a blue screen (10 secs on each about).  I can only do 1 thing (ie. open a program, or click on "Start" or whatever) before it switches back to blue again.  Sometimes it crashes.  Other times it just continues like this for hours.  If I hit the reset button, the screen sometimes says "can't display ....." and I have a black screen OR I get the POST screens, but they have lines/dots through them.  Sometimes I get back into Windows and sometimes I don't.  If I shut off all power and leave it for a while, it will start back up. Sometimes I get error messages that it's the video driver at fault.
I've run prime95 and memtest and no issues.  It doesn't get that hot (even when p95 is left running overnight).  I've watched voltages and they are all in spec (barely change when under load).  I've tried 7-8 different nvidia drivers (cleaning out old drivers each time).  I've reset all the bios options to default.  I've reinstalled windows.  I've taken the whole kit apart and rebuit it.
It seems like a bad-vid card...except that this vid card was working fine in my old system (2 months ago) with the same games (and the card was rock solid overclocking too).  Either my vid-card pooped out during the switch to the new system or it's something in the new system.  What do you guys think?  I really don't want to RMA a vid-card (and be without one for a while) if it's something else.  Could it be the RAM?

...deceptive thread title...  
...everything is pointing to the vidcard...how's the chipset fan on it?...sounds like a heat issue...
Quote
I've run prime95 and memtest and no issues....Could it be the RAM?
...huh?..

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