Hey, I was just wondering if artifacts can occur before installing drivers. I'm saying this because I'm just about to purchase a used video card from someone locally but have no way of confirming that it will work great. Hence, we have both decided that it would be fair if I took my computer and hooked the video card into it and give it a test boot to insure that the video card is indeed working as stated. Please give me inputs on how I should "test" this video card out. Thanks.