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I will not be totally shocked if the next one has same problem, I would have put that new video card in another system before RMA'n it.
I have so many old video cards, last one that went bad was like 7 cards back, I don't overclock at all though, so YMMV.
Run a Linux LiveCD build on the system with that card in, if it works perfect it's highly unlikely the card.
A spare HD to install whatever OS to, for virgin testing, if I need it, which I would do in a case like this one, any old 20+ gig HD will do. [Compuvest is a great place for old parts]