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New GFX card??

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Basically i bought the OCUK 24" monitor and tried using my 9800PRO over DVI and it works untill you start playing with the resolutions then the screen starts goin crazy, VGA works fine all the way to 1920x1200 but DVI only up to like 1024x768 maybe a bit higher.

I have tried DVI on another monitor though this was only a 19" and the max resolution was 1280x1024 but it all worked fine.

Pics:
This is the first pic, notice the orange menu bar (usually blue) and start menu on the wrong side, if you look at the mouse pointer you can see that the screen is shaking really fast but it's hard to capture on camera. And the tearing on the right palm trees.
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Colours are all like inverted or something, and lines goin accross the screen, though the menu bar is blue again.

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However on some resolutions i don't get anything. So do I need a new GFX card? Is my 9800PRO struggling with these higher resolutions or is something up with my monitor?

P.S. I have lastest Video card drivers
 
It could be that the DVI port on your card isn't working correctly or I suppose you may have a slightly dodgy DVI cable, have you tested the monitor with another graphics card/PC?
 
Right just tried it with a laptop over DVI and got to 1920x1200 just fine so it must be the card.

Was looking at picking up a 2nd hand X1950 or something along those lines, just something cheap as i will be using xbox360 for gaming over VGA.

I have a 350W antec PSU is that enough for a X1950?
 
Should be just about OK as long as theres not a humongous amount of other power-hungry bits in your system.
 
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