MSI 4870 MD1G - Annoying Artifact problem ...

Greetings!
I tried to find a solution to my problem, but unfortunately I didn't find anything ... So:
I bought a MSI 4870 MD1G card 2 months ago to my new PC.
Specs:
AMD Phenom II X2 - 550
Gigabyte 770XT-UDP4
4GB OCZ Platinum 1600 MHz DDR3
Samsung Pinpoint F1 1TB
MSI 4870 MD1G
Enermax Liberty 400W
I was try it, run a lot of tests and I was very happy with it, it's fast and stable ...
But ... after a few days later I started a game (STALKER Clear Sky ...) and some graphics artifacts appears! I quickly quit from the game and check temperatures and anything ... but everything seems to be ok ... (I didn't OC the card ...)
I was downloaded some GPU tests (Furmark, GPU Caps Viewer, etc ...) and I found a lot of artifacts ...
After when I restarted my PC, the problem dissapears ... There is no artifacts, an I can play more than 8 hour without any problems ...
Few days after ... Artifacts again ... I just restart my computer and the problem is fixed ...
I was made a lot of trials, with XP, Vista and Win7, with different drivers (9.6, 9.7, 9.8, 9.9 ...) and the artifacts always come back ... If I let to run the game/testprogram to run with artifatcts, the VPU Recovery is fix the problem, or I need to restart my pc ...
But its very annoying ...
It's hard to reproducate this problem, so I don't want to RMA this Card ... (Actually I like it, quiet and fast ) ...
Any idea?
Thanks for the help! (And sorry for my English ...)

Quote from: Silme on 02-October-09, 13:55:22
wow, I mean WOW!!! I removed the gigantic 220mm fan, set fan on the board to 60% (almost inaudible in my system) and set the memory to 925MHz... It helped! It really helped! I saw one or 2 black squares in 1.5 hour game but it much more stable than 100% fan / 900MHz memory. Amazing! How did you come up with that solution?
Great!
I played some hours with the problem and try a lot of ideas (Thats my work too, I'm a HW/SW troubleshooter in an electronik factory )
I'm happy, because we found a temporary solution ... So we need to wait for the official solution
Br,
Dummy

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