RX9800 128MB, weird artifacting...

First off here's my system specs:
Antec TruePower 430 Power Supply
MSI RX9800 128MB
Asus P4PE Motherboard w/ 2.53 P4
ATI Catalyst 4.8 Drivers
Nothing is overclocked...
I just got this MSI 9800 Pro a few days ago and everything works fine except at certain times (almost randomly) after playing certain games (Doom3, UT2004, America's Army) actual 3d shapes stretch and disfigure and some textures disappear completely. Here's a screenshot I captured of the problem:
http://www.presseject.com/wtf2.png
This problem does not occur with Battlefield: Vietnam, Battlefield: 1942, Far Cry and other games I have tried. I thought I had fixed the problem after Doom3 did not show the problem anymore but it just popped up again when I was playing America's Army a few minutes ago (1280x960 4x AA, 8x AF 85mhz refresh)
I have looked everywhere and can't find anyone that is having a problem similar to mine. My CPU temp right now is 46C, Motherboard temp is 37C (basically room temperature, I live in Las Vegas) so I don't think this is a heat related issue.
i've done some further testing into this:
1) I ran ATI Tool on "Scan for Artifacts" mode and the artifacts appeared around 3:10 into the test
2) I removed the MSI power cable and used one from my PSU, ran ATI Tool again and artifacts appeared 1:30 into the test
obviously not a power cable problem, but now i'm even more confused...
This card should not be overheating straight out of the box, and if I can't get this problem resovled very quickly I'm going to have to return the card for something else.

Damn I sorry to hear that hope you find a fix for it soon Im planning on getting this card but Im seeing a few bad threads on these cards   .  Have you tried using an older driver set? see if that helps or maybe turning off fastwrites that doesnt work for me so I leave it off all the time. I would keeping trying diff drivers sets if that doesnt help then I would send it back if you can.Let us know if you fixed this problem. I also live in Las Vegas   Nice city from what I hear

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