Screen Tearing

I'm getting a lot of screen tearing in games and I'm wondering if it's my hardware messing up, if I have the wrong settings or it's just something I have to deal with.

Now I realize that I can use Vsync, which I do in farcry 3, but I tried enabling it in Shogun 2 and that didn't really work.

Here is my build:

http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/user/Skreedles/saved/3JeD

My monitor is a asus AL2017.

Screen tearing happens when your Frame rate exceeds the maximum refresh rate of your monitor (Which is perfectly normal) and when you enable vsync if your monitor is a 60hz monitor it will limit you to 60fps but if you dont want to see ANY tearing and want the max frames you can get and want to buy a new monitor you could get an Nvidia GSync monitor but you half to have an nvidia card and a few other things.