Artifacting, again!

This time I know exactly what's going on, but I was still surprised to see the problem occur again.

I got the laptop in May 04, worked well until around January 05, when every game I'd run would artifact magnificently after 5 mins of playing. I RMAed the 8790, got my motherboard replaced, and it worked beautifully again until basically February 2006. Now it's doing the same story over again. Oh yeah, I still have a 2 year long philips warranty so I'm not extremely concerned about the problem, but the deal is that it's occurring again.
I expected it to be ultimately fixed when I sent the laptop for RMA, thought they'd substitute the motherboard with one that doesn't cause the same problem after a few months, but apparently there no such thing.
Oh and the battery died a few months ago, even though I tried to keep it healthy by doing the fully discharge/fully recharge procedure. Still, 2 years is a pretty short lifespan.

The conclusion? Sager 8790 is not a laptop that is meant to last. It was engineered poorly and most likely clocked to show good performance scores on the short run, but burn out very fast on the long run.

I'm getting a SFF desktop at the end of March and it will satisfy my desire for power and portability, but I will never buy a Sager or any other Clevo laptop again, because I don't want to send the system I work on, away for two weeks every 6 months.

One thing I'm pissed about? I can't sell the laptop without ripping off whoever buys it. If I RMA it now and sell it, the next person will have the same problem in 6 months and will not be able to RMA it. In order to be ethical I'd have to write "WARNING: Product not meant to last longer than 6 months, don't complain to me when it dies" on the front page, but with that I will never sell it

Any suggestions on what to do?l

Yeah in two years I pretty much mastered the art of unclogging the 8790 and make sure the motherboard doesn't have crap on it. Unfortunately that doesn't help when the GPU itself is broken. Underclocking doesn't work either.

Actually I did a search and it seems like Philips Magnavox is not that great of an insurance company as I thought. What should I do in case I'm getting the service I paid for, should I start bitching real loud on the main sager forum?

what I actually meant was getting the attention of pctorque people.

I'm hoping for a refund, somewhere around 2 grand if possible.

As soon as I get my SSF pc running, I'll send this bad boy to philips.

So, today I felt like playing something (relatively) good and old, so I installed Freedom Fighters and decided to give it a try. After 5 mins of gaming, the entire screen would get covered by artifacts making gaming absolutely impossible. I even opened the window to chill the room a little bit (risking getting a cold). It helped a little bit but still didn't solve the problem and I was sort of freezing.

I was so pissed at that point that I thought:"Ok, this is total bs. I don't care about framerate now, I just want the bloody thing to work", so I installed the latest omegadrivers and reduced GPU clock from 405 to 350 and mem clock from 270 to 233. Artifacts ceased to exist, even after a very long playing session.

Naturally this doesn't mean I'm not going to have my laptop RMAed and possibly reimbursed, because reducing the efficiency of a system whose power I specifically paid for, is not a solution. In any case, if any of you are getting artifacts and want to temporarily get a working system, do downcloak the GPU.

I did, and that's why I tried underclocking. It's simply the principle that really matters, the fact that I can't use what I paid for

It's basically like buying a private jet and then being told that actually it cannot fly, but you can still drive it to your destination.