Solid advice on PC graphics card needed

helijohn wrote:

OllieNZ wrote: [ Did you try manually selecting the resolution?

Yes. None of the ratios eliminated the 'stretch'.

I also used the catalyst to alter sizings. Wasted hours on it and I thought was doing well after the actual fitting took seconds.

That is random. Not something I've come across before. What OS are you running?

OllieNZ wrote: [What OS are you running?

The one that kicked off all of this "to do" in the first place. I regret the day I put Windows 7 on the machines. It's W7.

I put W7 on the gaming PC - a Dell Optiplex 755 mini tower. Then I upgraded to W10 and got a display that would not fit the screen (too big or too small). Reverted it to W7 and all is fine displaywise. Bought the new graphics card (GTE 750 to replace the Radeon 5450 that was in it) and that has now undersized the display on it with W7. arghhhh Abandoned ship with that PC.

So now I had a Radeon 5450 that I had removed from the gaming PC doing nowt. I put it into the Optiplex 745 which uses W7 and now got the stretch. The Dell 745 is the daily PC.

I HATE W7.
Also since going W7 on the Dell 745 it has forced me to format two Ext HDD losing hundreds of pics (lots about Jimny jobs I have done). Sadly all the pics were dual backed up on those two ExHDDs. Everything now goes on to a DVD but the stable door was closed after the horse bolted.

Yes - Windows bloody seven..