Okay a bit of history here. This weekend I rebuilt my PC from the ground up. You can click on the link in my sig to see my new setup. The parts that I replaced and/or removed are listed below:
P3-700e FC-PGA (replaced)
Abit BX-133 (replaced)
Hercules Prophet DDR-DVI w/ Blue Orb. (replaced)
Digital Doc 5 (removed)
NewQ Platinum (removed)
IBM Deskstar 75GXP 30.GB (replaced)
IBM Deskstar 22GXP(?) 10GB (replaced)
Western Digital 2.5GB (removed)
Global Win FOP-32 (just changed the fan to a Delta and cleaned off Arctic Silver 1 and put on Arctic Silver 2)
Outside of that everything else remains the same. Now with that system I had no noticable shadowing or 'rolling'. It may of been there if I'd switched my background to a solid color and looked very closely, but I'd been using that setup for about 1 year w/o noticing anything. Again it could of been me just not looking closely enough.
Now on my new system I have some severe shadowing and depending on the resolution/refresh rate some 'rolling' also (about 1/4 inch dark bands "roll up" the monitor). This kind of confuses me, because from what I read the 2D performance of the GF3 was much improved over earlier models. Now I haven't tested every single resolution and refresh rate combination, but in all the common ones I use shadowing is present to some extent, rolling however is pretty rare just a very few cases. Shadowing is immedidately noticable on the mouse cursor as it moves around in 1280x960x32bit at 100hz refresh rate (my default desktop resolution) on a plain green background (default background color on the Spruce color scheme) I can see upto 5(!) shadow cursors to the right of the real cursor. It kinda like a ghost mouse trail, and yes mouse trails are _not_ on. If you look closely enough you can see it on any still icon, moving the icons around makes it immediately noticable. What driver version I'm using has little bearing on this problem (I didn't expect it too either) but for the mean time I'm using Detonator 12.60. Nothing in my system is currently overclocked. Also I have my PC & monitor plugged into a APC Backup-UPS 1400w to clean the line power and for a monitor cable I use the highend 15-pin D connector to RGB breakout cable from www.bettercables.com.
Now fairly close to my PC I have a few electronic devices (speakers, Handspring cradle, modem, desk lamp, etc). I've moved them all away and the problem still persists. Against a mixed color background I have to strain really hard to see the shadowing on the cursor as it moves but it's still there. During DVD play back or 3D games the image quality is a bit better than my old card, but this 2D shadowing on the desktop is really nagging me. It isn't all that big of a problem as it's barely noticable in 99% of cases, but considering the investment I've made in my PC I'm pretty frustrated it even exists.
Anyone have any ideas of whatelse I could try to fix this problem? Know of any known issues w/ Asus GF3 2D image quality? Any websites where I might be able to find better information on this problem and how to solve it? Thanks in advance.
P3-700e FC-PGA (replaced)
Abit BX-133 (replaced)
Hercules Prophet DDR-DVI w/ Blue Orb. (replaced)
Digital Doc 5 (removed)
NewQ Platinum (removed)
IBM Deskstar 75GXP 30.GB (replaced)
IBM Deskstar 22GXP(?) 10GB (replaced)
Western Digital 2.5GB (removed)
Global Win FOP-32 (just changed the fan to a Delta and cleaned off Arctic Silver 1 and put on Arctic Silver 2)
Outside of that everything else remains the same. Now with that system I had no noticable shadowing or 'rolling'. It may of been there if I'd switched my background to a solid color and looked very closely, but I'd been using that setup for about 1 year w/o noticing anything. Again it could of been me just not looking closely enough.
Now on my new system I have some severe shadowing and depending on the resolution/refresh rate some 'rolling' also (about 1/4 inch dark bands "roll up" the monitor). This kind of confuses me, because from what I read the 2D performance of the GF3 was much improved over earlier models. Now I haven't tested every single resolution and refresh rate combination, but in all the common ones I use shadowing is present to some extent, rolling however is pretty rare just a very few cases. Shadowing is immedidately noticable on the mouse cursor as it moves around in 1280x960x32bit at 100hz refresh rate (my default desktop resolution) on a plain green background (default background color on the Spruce color scheme) I can see upto 5(!) shadow cursors to the right of the real cursor. It kinda like a ghost mouse trail, and yes mouse trails are _not_ on. If you look closely enough you can see it on any still icon, moving the icons around makes it immediately noticable. What driver version I'm using has little bearing on this problem (I didn't expect it too either) but for the mean time I'm using Detonator 12.60. Nothing in my system is currently overclocked. Also I have my PC & monitor plugged into a APC Backup-UPS 1400w to clean the line power and for a monitor cable I use the highend 15-pin D connector to RGB breakout cable from www.bettercables.com.
Now fairly close to my PC I have a few electronic devices (speakers, Handspring cradle, modem, desk lamp, etc). I've moved them all away and the problem still persists. Against a mixed color background I have to strain really hard to see the shadowing on the cursor as it moves but it's still there. During DVD play back or 3D games the image quality is a bit better than my old card, but this 2D shadowing on the desktop is really nagging me. It isn't all that big of a problem as it's barely noticable in 99% of cases, but considering the investment I've made in my PC I'm pretty frustrated it even exists.
Anyone have any ideas of whatelse I could try to fix this problem? Know of any known issues w/ Asus GF3 2D image quality? Any websites where I might be able to find better information on this problem and how to solve it? Thanks in advance.
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