Hi Sweeper
Do you know what model motherboard you have? Depending on your board will depend on what cards you can buy. Unfortunatly with today's graphics cards, they all tend to be full length (nearly a foot long) so your case needs to have the physical room.
Then power supplies become a...
My 9700 pro would produce checkerboarding in Direct3d applications, like the lobby scene from 3dmark.
It would crash to desktop if I pressed escape in CS too
Poor drivers, nvidia have always worked for me first time
Random lockups and blue screens can often be tributed to ram problems, it's either that or power / mobo. Ram is often the easiest to test, well that and making sure that your ram timings are set correctly ;)
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