Just wanted to post a follow up to my weird graphical issues mentioned above.

The issue went away on its own...for a while.

It came back with a Vengeance! For the last several weeks, it started by up again, slowly at first then full scan crazy graphical issues with excessive load times, picture swaps, and WoW crashes.

I did some research and read reviews on newegg

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814125363


When I bought the card on February 2nd, 2011 it had great reviews and excellent performance charts. Now, several months later all the reviewers are posting about the same exact problems I am having and regret ever buying it. So, I'm pissed off.
Since the 30-day RMA has expired with newegg, I am sending it back to the manufacturer to get a replacement, which I intend to sell (assuming it works).

Because of this, I bought the EVGA Nvidia GTX 580 3GB card for $560. I absolutely love it! I can run all clients at "good" settings and the GPU load is only 50% (5 clients). I'll try out max settings later.