Grpahics on my computer are messing up, tearing, etc (PICS OF PROBLEM TOO)

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krazykid122

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okay so i have a personally built computer. it worked fine for the LONGEST time, and then out of no where my graphics started to mess up, like in the pics imma post below, at this time i had my EVGA 8800gt. with my old motherboard and 15 inch e machines monitor. so i got this random thought, hey maybe its my monitor, BAM bought a new 22 inch one, problem is still there, then i was like well damn, maybe the graphics card, so i bought an MSI N430GT. Nope no solution, so then i thought it could be my PCI slot on my motherboard or something, so i bought a MSI 785GT-E63 motherboard. got it in, it works, and what do you know! still problems..... i even replaced the VGA cable from the card to the monitor, now i use a DVI cable, it goes from the DVI slot on the monitor to the DVI on the card. And when it would mess up, if id catch it in time, i could minimize the game and open it back up, all the tearing and everything would go away, but it would come back alittle bit later of course, followed by a computer crash.

Can anyone tell me whats going on? i have done multiple restores before to try and fix this, it has done no good.

Now i play World of Warcraft Mainly, i would play other games, like games on Steam if it wasnt for my graphics that would always mess up, so these screenshots are of WoW.


What its SUPPOSED to look like...
1. http://tinypic.com/r/nn5irr/7
2. http://tinypic.com/r/ehdriu/7
3. http://tinypic.com/r/142zu4g/7

And when it messes up...
1. http://tinypic.com/r/9jkcif/7
2. http://tinypic.com/r/1pxoh0/7
3. http://tinypic.com/r/b5jf6f/7
 
That's a graphics card problem alright. Will you list your full specs from when this started happening please? Namely the powersupply brand and model but I suspect it might not be the problem here. Since you bought and installed all this new hardware, have you reformatted your computer or uninstalled any old drivers? If you haven't, it could easily be part of the problem.

I would suggest a temperature monitoring program running while you play the game (preferably after the computer has been off for a while so it can cool down) - I would suggest HWMonitor: http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html Run that while you play WoW. After it starts artefacting, exit the game if you can (or do so via task manager) and take a screenshot of the HWMonitor screen with the temperatures.

Video cards normally artefact after they reach a high temperature or if they are faulty. It's likely that your 8800GT was going faulty, and your 430GT might be as well. It's probably unlikely they the 430GT is faulty, but stranger things have happened than two graphics cards in a row being faulty.
 
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