Unobody 17" Macbook Pro 9600M broken gfx card?

Has anyone else been getting some pretty bad issues with the graphics card in the new unibody 17" machines? I have been getting some pretty bad green lines down everything when I use the more powerful GFX card.
This machine is brand new.. the lines do seem to get worse as the card heats up...take a look..
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Possibly but I had FOUR macbook pros of the previous incarnation, and this is why they allowed me a replacement with the unibody.. now i have more problems that others seem to be having.. I wonder how long it will be before they determine if this is a hardware fault.. or it can be sorted with firmware?
I cant believe that SO many people have the same issues, surely there can't be so much bad graphic card hardware out there?

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