New PC - graphics problem

Just spent £1,400 on a new PC as I've been getting into PC gaming a lot and my old 3.4Ghz HT Pentium 4 with 1GB PC3200 RAM and 256MB X600 Pro graphics card were struggling.

So my new system, from Dell, is specced:

E6600 (2.4Ghz) Intel Core 2 Duo Processor
2GB DDR2 PC5300 RAM @ 667Mhz
nVidia GeForce 7950GX2 with 2 x 512MB graphics card
320GB hard drive

My main game I wanted it for was Pro Evo Soccer 6, which my old PC stuggled a bit with, even at Med quality and 800x600.

My new PC runs it full-speed, no frame rate issues/slow down, even at 128x1024, High quality.

I can also run Need For Speed Carbon at full quality and Splinter Cell Double Agent.

However I have 1 problem, and it's one I never seen on my old PC, and it's very very hard to explain:

All the games so far seem to exhibit a strange "line" - I put "line" in quotes cos it's not really a line as such - the best way I can describe it is imagine a screenshot of a game. Now take the bottom 1/3rd of the screenshot and shift it, say, 10 or 20 pixels to to the right or left (in other words so the top bit of the pic is unaligned with the bottom) - this would give the appearance of a noticeable "line" where the "join" is (another example would be imagine hanging wallpaper and not getting 2 sheets perfectly aligned).

Now imagine this not in a static screenshot, but in-game, while things are moving. This is what I'm getting. It's not totally noticeable at all times, but it's enough to be annoying, especially when I've just spent £1,400 on a system to play games!

Sorry for sounding so vague, I might try get a video put together so you can see.

Cheers for any advice.

It's a 19" flat panel, and I'm looking right now in the nVidia Control Panel for a way to turn Wait for Vsync on, as some of my games don't have an option for it (Pro Evo Soccer 6 doesn't).

Some people have more money than sense. Did no one tell you op that your system was fine except your gfx card was muck? Switching that out for a £150ish x1800xt or similar would have been a supremely better way to spend your money????

I know a guy who bought an x1900xt to enable him to play Eve Online........

OP. There usually is an option to force enable vsync or failing that force a high level of AF and AA which should bring your frames down enough to stop tearing if that's what is happening.

Also put your monitor refresh to it's highest level and make sure your running the monitor at it's native res which should also help keep frames down.

Btw just to confirm you only get the "tearing" of the picture when it's moving and ONLY in games? It should be particularly noticable with vertical lines say on a building etc. If you get this glitch when the picture is stationary or outside of games, say when watching a movie, then you have another problem.

Nothings bad about it, he was saying your old one was guff and that the rest of your old system was fine and that you wasted almost all your money to play a simple football game on a monitor you would have been best of upgrading instead.

You wasted a lot of my I am sorry to say, something you will have to live with… it’s not even DirectX 10 compatible which it could have been in this timeframe if you shown a bit more wisdom and actually asked people what you should buy.

Why?

That doesn't explain *why* not get a Dell for gaming.

To be honest the new PC is superb, and not just for gaming. I can now convert an avi to DVD with NeroVision in 20 mins instead of 1h 40m.

Also I now have a pukka copy of Windows XP, previously I had an illegal copy (only because my old had a genuine copy, but the motherboard died and I replaced it, and Microsoft told me my old key would no longer work as it was on OEM key and since I changed the motherboard I'd need to buy a whole new copy of Windows).

Also my new PC comes with a free upgrade to Vista Premium when released, which I'd have bought anyway.

I also got £440 by selling my old PC in parts on eBay.