Pretty Bad Banding and Not Sure What to do About it

[ComputerWontBoot]

I think I have a pretty big problem with banding. I noticed while watching a video that the darks looked absolutely terrible. (http://imgur.com/esFz66a) At first I assumed it was just poor video quality, even though it was a 720p file. After it happened with yet another video I downloaded(1080p), I started looking it up. Apparently this is called banding, and I think it is an issue with my GPU or monitor as I have been starting to notice it with other things. I have no idea what causes it or how to fix it (I mean, I just learned what it is an hour ago) but it's really irritating me as a quality nut. I'd really appreciate some help. My GPU is an Nvidia GTX 1050ti and my monitor is an Asus VS228.

Edit: Here's another example http://imgur.com/a/gCqkk

 

[Gaidax]

If you have CPU with iGPU, then you could try using that and see if artifact exists and go from there.

How do you connect your monitor, with which cable?

 

[ComputerWontBoot]

If you have CPU with iGPU, then you could try using that and see if artifact exists and go from there.

How do you connect your monitor, with which cable?

I have a DVI cable running from my graphics card to my monitor. I'll try that later.