I would demand a new one. If you paid for a new one, you didn't receive the product you paid for in the condition it specified. I haven't dealt with Buy.com however so I'm not sure how helpful their customer service is. I'd say it's...
I think you are on the right track upgrading core components. Quadfire and Raid 0 SSDs won't give you as much of a performance boost. I'm personally a big fan of EVGA and ASUS boards, though I've never owned Gigabyte. If you can wait a...
I have both the Asus Essence ST and Sennheiser HD595s and I can honestly tell you it was my favorite upgrade of the last two years. It will make you hate your 128kbs MP3s but once you hear FLAC on a halfway decent setup, you will realize...
Are you using the DVI out on your card and going in to HDMI on the monitor? If so, try a different HDMI source like a game console and see what happens.