Screen artifacts - Hardware or software?

Hello all, my name is Larry and I'm having a problem with my VGA I hope the forum can help me diagnose. My PC hardware is listed in my sig, but the short form is that I've built a new PC with a 460GTX 1GD5/OC video card driving 2 Samsung 1920x1080 screens. Within 10 hours of building the new PC, I started to get this all the time:
FAILURE 1:
I RMA'd the board and installed the new one. I don't get the first failure anymore, but now I intermittently get this:
FAILURE 2:
Most often when I get this new failure, it will appear for a few seconds and then both screens will blank and the screens will reappear correctly. Occassionally, I have to reboot to clear the problem.
I'm not so sure the new failure is hardware. What does the forum think? Thanks in advance for any help you can give me. My new, uber-PC is not making me very happy!

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Screen artifacts - Hardware or software?
software no way, only if OC by software/BIOS is involved.
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I RMA'd the board and installed the new one. I don't get the first failure anymore, but now I intermittently get this:
By board you mean mainboard or video card?
Test VGA in another machine.
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Within 10 hours of building the new PC, I started to get this all the time:
So 10 hours works fine? If yes looks like temp related then.[overheating issue]

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