Hardware or driver issue AMD A10-5800K

[enduser]

Having some issues with a new set up. Tried the 12.10/11 and 13.1 drivers, open source works fine for the most part.

I have the set up listed below. I also have a second set up like this but with a A8-5600K CPU and AMD ram which is working good although it does have one of the glitches explained below.

• AMD A10-5800K APU Quad Core Processor Socket FM2 3.8GHZ 4MB 100W Retail Box
• G.SKILL F3-14900CL9D-8GBSR Sniper SE 8GB 2X4GB DDR3-1866 CL9-10-9-28 1.5V
• Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200RPM 64MB SATA 6Gbps 3.5in Internal Hard Drive
• Thermaltake TR2 500W Power Supply Cable Management ATX12V V2.3 24PIN With 120mm Fan
• MSI FM2-A75MA-E35 mATX FM2 A75 DDR3 1PCI-E16 2PCI-E1 1PCI SATA3 HDMI DVI USB3.0
• Nmedia HTPC-5000B Desktop Media Centre Case mATX

So using Linux Mint 14 Mate I get this when playing 3D games

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rykZjhlu61E

I also get white pixels on the screen especially around images or window borders. I have something similar on the A8 system but not too noticeable.

I left the Bios settings at factory defaults. I tired a few other distros and I get the same thing with all of them.

This is my htpc/game rig at work so will take it home and swap out parts with that so see if any changes occur.

[gradinaruvasile]

What games have problems more exactly? Do you use any desktop compositing?
That thing from the youtube vid looks really bad. What game is it?

I have an A8-5500 and have no issues with it. I run Debian Wheezy on it with Xfce 4.10 (no compositing) and the 3.7 kernel (the stock 3.2 kernel had issues with the sound card).
Now i have the 13.1 drivers installed and encountered no issues so far.
Played TF2, CS 1.6 on Steam, Dungeons and Dragons via Wine, 0 AD, Urban Terror, Nexuiz and whatnot. No issues.

[punti]

This problem was caused by broken hardware, enduser reported that on http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=123132