R6950 Twin Frozr II - Desktop/Idle Artifacting

The problem is simple... when my card hits idle clocks, my desktop starts getting tiny little squares and artifacts, more or less everywhere. When browsing the web or watching Video it also stays at Idle clocks instead of going to 2D(can't get around this for some reason).
There is no problem with anything at actual 2D, 3D clocks. Tried maxing all of windows' "power saving" settings, various drivers, ccc installed, not installed. tried hardware profiles in msi afterburner... but again, the problem is at idle clocks, and no utility i've found besides flashing lets me increase my idle clocks, if that is the problem.
Also, I have not overclocked anything nor done any flashing since the card is 5 days old and this started on day 2, and I also tried the card in a different computer with the same results.
and I run at 1920x1080 on a 24" LG
my guess is that the low idle clocks of 250gpu and 150mem(x4 multiplier?, so 600 actual?) are what is causing this, or maybe the voltage that is tied to the idle clock is too low(doesnt sound reasonable though) which is at .9 when at idle.
I'm obviously biased towards the idle clock issue, this is due to hours over hours of hardcore google research :( which has pointed me in that direction.
I haven't flashed anything yet because I haven't figured out if raising my so called "power saving" idle clock in my Vbios will void my MSI 3 year warranty. so if anyone has an answer to that? or if anyone is familiar with the problem I'm having and knows how to fix it, PLZ tell me what to do before i give up and either send it back to Newegg or RMA it to MSI for a replacement. If it does end up going back to the EGG... I'm totally bricking this son of a B first.. it had a scratch on the top of the HS cover out of the box, .
p.s. its not the OC version or it would be in the subject line. Cayman GPU. Release: Dec 15, 2010 Bios: 013.011.000.001.000000
ohh yeah... i'm running Windows 7 pro x64 on all my rigs, if that carries any relevance at all.
if you want any GPU-Z screens, screens of artifacts happening, or any additional information just feel free to ask.
THANK YOU.

Turns out the card is indeed defective. I just wish it would of been D.O.A. out of the box instead of D.O.6 days later...
Artifacting had slowly increased since it started, so I didn't quite pick up on it until it was like holy you know what, there's artifacts and polys everywhere, I couldn't even read text in my browser at that point.
Blew my mind when I installed my old 1 gig 460 cyclone in my new build and it outbenched the 2gig 6950 in 3dmark 11 on the Xtreme benchmark. I just didn't notice how poorly the 6950 was performing even at 2D/3D clocks since my old system bottlenecked the heck out of the 460.
Thanks for your reply svet.
I do in fact use that method to remove drivers, its the only effective way of really getting everything off your pc in my opinion. And yes, tried all drivers, both MSI and ATI site versions, too bad it ended being a waste of much of my weekend.
Either way. Case closed. The Egg offered a full refund and free return shipping. Taking them up on that.
Thanks again.

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