Regretting buying the MVF [solved]

[Preacher]

I am starting to regret paying good money for this board, when I got it I automatically flashed to the 1604 BIOS, which as I now know has problems for the majority of users, myself included. I then went to the 1408 BIOS which was stable apart from booting into windows boot manager which gave me the option of which system to install, as I only have 1 HDD with windows 7 on it my choice is windows 7 or windows 7. Pressing OK started windows 7 but then I had to go through the whole process of restarting and hoping to get into the BIOS without windows boot manager starting again, if I press escape this saves me having to through the whole waiting for windows to load before I can restart to try and get into my BIOS, when I finally get into the BIOS it acts like the 1604 BIOS and resets my BIOS settings.

My gaming is still rubbish with judder on the games I play, BF3 being the worst, virtually unplayable. I have tried my old monitor, old graphics card, on board sound, creative card, different router, old mouse, so 3 things are left, the CPU, memory and Motherboard.

Today I flashed back to 701 BIOS to see if this fixed my gaming (it didn't), and again windows boot manager returned, if I leave my computer and it goes to sleep, when I wake it up I have no monitor so have to do a hard reset. I have the BIOS settings exactly the same as when I had the 1408 BIOS but now when I set my vcore at 1.18v, instead of showing a constant voltage in CPUz, it fluctuates between 1.12 and 1.29, which gives me temperatures of 68 c instead of 58 c while trying to play BF3.

So after less than 3 months of owning this board here's hoping the new BIOS fixes these problems, if not I can see this board going in the bin. The reason it will go in the bin is because if I return it as faulty I will probably get a refurbished board and after 4 faulty refurbished 560 ti cards from MSI I was without a computer for nearly 3 months and I am not going through that again.

[Chino]

Preacher wrote:
Funny you should mention earthquake's Chino, if you have played Aftermath (add on for BF3) on one of the maps there are aftershocks. That is what the juddering is like. Say if I run close to a team mate the whole screen starts juddering up and down. If I run alongside a felled tree or a burnt out tank it is the same thing. If I stand still and pan around by moving my mouse, the whole scenery judders up and down. If you can imaging 2 magnets and trying to touch them together with both the same poles they repel each other, that is what it is like if I come into contact with any object in the game that can move, it is like it is repeling me. I sometimes get out of a vehicle and it throws me about 20 feet.

kkn, no mate my soldier runs smooth, the game runs smooth with no lagg, rubberbanding or hanging, it is just the whole picture judders, as Chino requested I will try and figure out how to take a video. I am hard wired to the router too mate, I have also tried Upnp off, a different router and ethernet cable. Maybe my Belkin router doesn't like Intel Lan and prefers the marvell like on my rampage Formula, I haven't got a clue

Interesting.

Is this juddering effect happening to you when you're soleyly playing online games? Or does it show itself too when you're playing offline games?

[oG_kill3r]

I have experienced this too in BF3 , im thinking its lag due to players having extremely high ping maybe [could be wrong] ? This happens while running in game , it gets jittery - lag .

[Preacher]

I know what you mean oG kill3r, but everytime I delete BF3 and then install it again to try and fix the problem, I allways go to an empty server with a ping of 11 or 12 and it is still juddering. Anyway the MVF is running great, my photography software is about a thousand times quicker.

Chino, a while back I put BFBC2 back on to see if it was just BF3 and BFBC2 was the same judder. I then put MOH tier1 on as that has a half decent offline single player. That played the same too with judder when offline.

The only thing I haven't tried yet is to fire up my old rampage formula because I only have the one HDD and I can't be bothered formatting it for the RF, then formatting again for the MVF. After I get a corsair H100i, or when I can get hold of a Swiftech H220, then I will invest in another HDD and fire up my RF.

[Chino]

A SSD is a better investment. 😉 You can use the HDD as a storage drive.

Out of curiosity, have you tried using another PSU with youtr setup to see if the juddery continues? And I'll assume that this judderness also happens when you're running your i7 3770k at stock settings?

[Preacher]

Yes mate, 3770K @ stock settings too, and with BF3 on low settings with all the eyecandy turned off. My old PSU is a 750w but it has only got a 20 amp rail which even wasn't powerfull enough for my old 560 ti, and I havent got another one. The 650 I have now powered a 580 GTX lightning.

The only thing I havent tried with this board is the EZ power 4 pin molex because my PSU covers it.

[NemesisChild]

The EZ Power 4-pin is really only need when running 3 or more GPU's.
I play BF3 nightly, I'm addicted to the game and played BFBC2 myself prior to BF3.
I'm leaning towards the PSU as well, how old is your Antec 650W PSU?

[Preacher]

About 16 months old.

[oG_kill3r]

Could the rubber banding be caused by having slow upload speed ?

[Preacher]

I had my upload uncapped a few years back oG,



The servers I go on give me a ping of no more than 16 ingame, sometimes as low as 12.

I am happy with my OC @ 4.4 with 1.18v and temps never reaching above 60c, so I am going to keep the freezer pro 7 rev 2 so next week I might invest in a SSD and then I can fire up my Rampage Formula and load BF3 on and see how it goes.

NemesisChild, my ingame name for BF3 is XSabbathX. I used to play nightly too mate, but I am down to about 3 hours a week now because it just puts me in a bad mood with all the juddering. I rarely even finish the map off I am playing.

[nikosa43]

Hi Preacher, I am glad you managed to setup your system successfully. :)As for the headache of BF3, I am not an expert in online games, so I 'll talk just from my instinct, have you tried to setup your router with a static IP and make a port forwarding? There are lots of guides out there and specific for each router model.