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Title pretty much says it all. Bought a new MSI optix 34 ultrawide and as soon as I switched it on, i got an all too familiar feeling. Couldn't quite put my finger on it until I scrolled through the "preset" settings on the monitor and much of the blurriness went away. After this I remembered that I had a very big issue with a TV being blurry like this on a PC and I later realized it was the sharpness setting making it all sort of cloudy looking. This MSI monitor doesn't have a sharpness setting though for some weird reason. Is there any other means of adjusting the sharpness when the monitor itself doesn't have an option to change it?

Last update: Went back with it to the store and luckily, it did the same to them and wouldn't give any video output. Changed it free of charge and the new one works perfectly from what I can tell. Thank you everyone for the help. Hopefully someone having the same problem in the future stumbles upon this thread and helps them too.

An update. Hooked it up to my old i7 2600 system but I had forgotten that I removed windows on that machine. Unfortunately it is running a privacy oriented version of linux (Whonix), which I believe have very poor Nvidia compatibility. I am not an expert at these things so I don't know if I should still get a picture while in the BIOS even if running on Whonix. I did not however and the GPU reacted in the same way. That is, fans go up to 100% and never stop but still no picture. Extremely bummed out, guess I'll have to take it back tomorrow and hope they don't give me any crap.

It appears that all you guys are thinking it's a faulty card. Is this something that happens often? I was under the impression that DOA cards are really rare in today's QC day and age. But oh well. Later today after work, I will attempt to put it on my i7 2600 system and see if it works there. If not, I'll take it to the retailer. Thank God I bought this card locally and not online as I was tempted given the price discrepancy there usually is.

@GOTSpectrum Yeah I do have one other super old PC but I am legit scared to plug anything in it so I was trying to avoid it lol. It's an Intel i7 2600 system so pretty old at this point but I guess having an igpu is ideal for troubleshooting. Guess after work I'll have to swap over the PSU and try it on that one. @ObsidianAura Yeah it's definitely seated in well and I swapped between the cards several times while trying to understand what's going on. This evga card has two power slots, being a 6 and an 8 pin. I plugged in power for them both on each try. One thing however is that I didn't change any drivers or anything, as I imagine that this is normally done after the GPU is installed. I am also assuming that this cannot be a driver issue since the motherboard itself seems to be detecting an issue. Would you guys say this is an accurate assumption?

So I just bought an EVGA RTX2070 super from a local retailer so I can retire my 1060. My PC is running a Ryzen 2600 on an Asus ROG b450-f motherboard. I had bought the 1060 as a pre-owned and the HDMI output on it never worked. Since I am thinking of getting a new monitor, I figured I'd upgrade my graphics card first in order to drive any future pixel monsters better. However, when I hook up the 2070 and hit the power button, the motherboard lights up a white light which on this model means a "VGA issue". The fans on the 2070 go to 100%, which I believe is normal for a first run from past experiences but I figured I should make a note of it here. As a side note, I have also updated the BIOS on the motherboard to the latest version, even though none of the ones released since my last bios flash mention anything about VGA updates. What do you guys think?