6-7 groups of yellow vertical lines. My graphics card, a MSI 8800 ultra was not being recongnized, so I tried updating the drivers and even uninstalling the drivers and reinstalling with no luck. I have had the card for about 1.5 years. Could my graphics...

for a few years, and the graphics card hasn't died yet. Don't know if this applies to you, but it could help. Do you have an old card to try and swap to see if the noise goes away? If so, how long is the 8800's wty? Try to get it replaced before that ends....

from building it yourself. Which is the best value for money graphics card now? I was thinking of getting the Inspiron 530 with the stock Intel graphics media accelarator and then put in an XFX 512 MB 9600 GT on my own? Does this violate Dell's warranty?...

while ATI survives by focusing on low-end chips) go out of business. 5-6 years: Development starts to return to the PC, though most titles have poor graphics (which, 6 years from now, will still look better than most titles today, but will be far from...

intensive. either way i would just go get a solid graphics card as the only dx10 exclusive game going to be released is halo 2. if you have the extreme urge to play the game you could always go out and borrow someones xbox. so yeah definitely the graphics card....

This is a Global connected world now, Americo-Centrism is a fatal error for tech businesses. There are more people outside of America than in it, as the Music industry is learning. By the way it took 10 years for them to admit defeat, but they are finally...

a recent example, look at nvidia, assassin's creed and dx10.1.. I think your Microsoft conspiracy theory puts too much emphasis on the importance of graphics (or improving graphics) to gaming today. 5 - 10 years ago sure the race for better graphics was at...