New graphics card, white line ripples on screen?

make sure all the plugs are plugged in properly
or you might of killed it with a static charge

Your computer wont use the graphics card if the display isn't plugged into it. These white lines could mean anything really. I suggest removing all the old graphics drivers manually and reinstalling the new ones.

Everything works fine, I plugged it in correctly, I read it is something because of the refresh rate because when vsync is enabled it locks at 60fps and no screen ripples. When it isn't enabled it has white fuzzy ripples.

Does anyone know the problem? I hate this so much, I hate using vsync because it reduces performance.

Just to make sure... you haven't double connected the monitor to the graphics card, aka: use both the DVI and HDMI or VGA cables. The reason I ask, stupid as it sounds, I've seen someone do this entirely by mistake and overheat the monitor to frying point - can cause heat, fuzzy ripples, and damage over long periods of use.

Ensure the graphic card drivers have been successfully installed and are up-to-date.

If it's a faulty graphics output, then replace the card.

If it's however only screen tearing, then the answer is easy and simple... enable vsync (ingame only with those affected if possible, else through global driver setup). It doesn't reduce performance that the eye can see anyways, locking the framerate at 60fps or something means it can preprocess more frames ahead of time = a smoother display of fast pace action. It's not just throwing as many frames as possible to the monitor as quickly as possible. If you really want 120fps+, then get a faster processor and graphics card with a monitor that can also keep up with it. nVidia GTX680 is best :)

If you seriously don't like vsync, get a motherboard with Lucid Universal GPU Virtualization (VirtuMVP). Enable it, connect the cable via it's port instead of the graphics card, and install the drivers. It will use your grpahics card as well as boost some aspects of your graphics processing along side, which includes better vsync technology, however some games will even glitch more with this and it's not really worth the effort.

The white lines are very faint and I just took a screenshot and the screenshot did not show the white lines. Is it something wrong with the monitor? So does that mean theres nothing wrong with my system or graphics card since I took a screenshot and there was no white lines? I'm using a dvi to vga adapter that came with the gpu.

I have this psu

Also I just tested and I put vsync on and I can see very very feint white lines now so vsync doesnt completely solve the problem. What is wrong with this gpu?? My old one never did this.

For what i saw, you are running a bit low on the PSU side, i'm not sure that is the problem though. You could try running a benchmark to stress test the GPU, if the gpu cannot draw enough power from the psu, it will probably just shut off.

Other than that, you could get the gpu installed in another computer and see if the problem persists.

Does this problem happen with several games or just one?

lots of people have the same issue as me

Ok so I found out the problem is because I'm using a DVI to VGA adapter which converts a high signal to a weak analog signal on my graphics card and the white lines would be fixed if I use a DVI or HDMI connection. My monitor only has a VGA connection so would buying a high quality VGA cable fix it?

I just found someone with the EXACT same problem as me
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/331038-33-horizontal-gradients-game-running

It looks exactly the same as that pic, you can't see it clearly in that pic but in real life you can. And that happens when a game is running just like that guy whether the game is windowed or full screen/minimized or not. Please someone help me, I've been googling this all day yesterday and today and nobody knows how to fix this besides getting a new monitor.

Have you tried using your monitor's auto-adjust function?

edit: nvm