Graphics leaving a shadow effect. (Windows, icons, etc)

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I recently bought a new GTX 760. When I installed it I installed all drivers correctly. I have a problem where everything leaves trails or shadows when I move them. For example if I move a window on the desktop the icons or pictures or letters leave a shadow or trail effect. Another way of identifying the problem is while im watching something on my second screen such as a youtube video, when I move windows around they move at like 5 frames per second. Also if I change the windows theme to windows basic everything trails a lot more as if my drivers are not installed. Games run fine however the edges seem like they are not as smooth as they should be. I thought this may have been a driver conflict due to me having an amd gpu before but it is most definitely NOT as I just reformated my PC and the problem still persists even though the only things installed are chipset drivers and the latests nvidia drivers. I really do not know what to do and I dont think its a compatibility issue either as my motherboard is fairly recent. I will post my PC specs below. Any help is greatly appreciated as this is a very annoying problem.

Motherboard = Z68a-D3H-B3 (rev 1.0)
GPU = Asus GTX 760
Power supply = corsair 650w
Processor = i5 - 2500k
RAM = 8gb corsair

I run windows 7 64 bit SP1.

Last time I made a post about this I had not done a format and I did not get a single response. I hope this time someone will be able to assist me as this is getting extremely frustrating for me to troubleshoot.

Thank you

 
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The only thing I can think of (kind of an out there idea) is to make sure the monitors are not to blame. If you can test them out on something else to eliminate those as the culprit to this (unlikely I know but I'm going through what I would do in your shoes).
Also (you've probably done this) make sure the cables are properly seated and the connections (pins and ports) are clean.
One last VERY unlikely thing, test the memory. That's it I'm out of ideas.

Sorry if that doesn't help it's all that came to mind. This is one odd problem.
 
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Unfortunately I have done all of those apart from memtest. The thing is, everything was working fine until I changed my graphics card. I went from an amd 6850 to a gtx 760.
 
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Dang! Hmmmm..... If you have access to another rig, and installed the 760 with no issues, that could eliminate the card as the source of the issue. Oh! I was reading in another thread (older and more people in it were using Vista and XP but...) some solved a similar issue by changing the mouse refresh. I don't know if you have one that supports refresh modification but that might be (the mouse) somehow something else to try. I know that last one seems WAYYYY out in left field but at this point.... I'm fresh out. :??:
 
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So, after a lot of searching around, I still have not found a solution to this problem. Someone told me the reason may be because I am using a PCI 3.0 Graphics card on a PCI 2.0 Motherboard. I went to search about that and everyone seems to say that any PCI 3.0 card that is currently on the market would work with a PCI 2.0 motherboard as it downgrades and would not bottleneck or lose performance.

Another weird thing happened as well. A friend of mine logged on to team viewer to check the problem out. Whenever he moved my mouse or operated on my PC the issue I had with trailing and shadows was gone, but when i moved the windows around it would do it again. I simply can not understand how that would happen, because if it was a graphics card problem wouldnt I still see the trailing??

Im all out of ideas on this one. I simply can not find anything on the internet, and even if I was to buy a new motherboard with PCI 3.0 I would have to buy a new CPU apparently because to use 3.0 you need ivy bridge and higher.

Anyone that has the slightest idea of what I could test would be greatly appreciated as this is starting to become a nightmare.

Thanks again!
 
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Well to eliminate the GPU if you can try it in your friends computer it will help! I am sure it has nothing to do with the PCIe version. Have you tried a different input device (mouse keyboard) since when your friend was there remotely he was not using yours but all the other bits?
 
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I have tried another mouse yes. Sadly it is not that either. Another useful piece of information is that I installed 2 GTX 760's at work on two identical PCs that have gigabyte EP35-DS3L motherboards. These pcs have exactly the same problem with me only that they trail to a much smaller degree. But when i move windows round in windows basic mode you can clearly see the edges of windows breaking up as if there is a driver problem. The issue on thsoe pcs is much smaller than mine at home however. I dont know if that helps in any way.
 
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