4870 512mb crashing, common issue?

Hello all,

I just recently built a brand new computer (for the first time). Its been about a month and it has been running strong. But every once in a while, the card will stop responding.

Sometimes i have to restart, sometimes it turns back on and hops back into vista. When I don't have to restart it gives me a message saying "Display driver has stopped responding and has recovered"

This hasn't happened to me before about a week ago. It did it for the first time when i was playing COD:WAW campaign. Then it didn't happen for about 5 days. Just yesterday it crashed while playing COD multiplayer. Then i let it sit for a while, played again, and it crashed again after about 30 min of playing.

I have checked the temps and it all seems fine (in the 50-60c area). Though when I ran OCCZ to test my CPU overclock, I tried out the videocard burn test and at 100% load the temps would shoot up into the scary 80's (I shut down the test after noticing it was climbing and climbing. Airflow shouldn't be an issue, since i have a Cooermaster HAF932 with a fan blowing directly into the side of the case. But other than that, the temps seem perfectly fine.

I have been looking around online for a while, and I am starting to notice that this is actually a common problem, not just for AMD, but for nVidia as well. At least thats what it looks like.

So is this a common issue?
Have there been any fixes?
Is there anything I should try?

I have already tested my memory, checked to make sure everything was plugged in and snug. My PSU is a 750watt so that should be enough. What else could it be other than a driver issue?

Is it overclocked? If so, turn it down a notch.

No overclocking, all the RAM checks out. It could possibly be a problem with COD:WAW itself, since i have not experienced crashes in any other games.

Just played it for a while last night and it didn't crash after I downloaded the 9.4 drivers, they might have fixed whatever issue there was.