- Jun 13, 2013
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I am having "haze" or other called it "rainbow" effect on my display during gaming. My mbd is Z68XP-UD3P with BIOS upgraded to UEFI. The Z68 chipset has onboard graphics facility and this I think is most likely the cause of the problem. I remember that I did manage to play a couple of hours of ME3 multiplayer without the "haze" or "rainbow" effect in SLI before I upgraded the BIOS to UEFI. I had disabled the onboard graphics. But with the UEFI, disabling the onboard graphics doesn't seem to help at all.
Spec is:
Z68XP-UD3P
i5-2500K 3.3 ghz
2 x 4 gb Cosair 1600 ram
2 x MSI GeForce GTX 660 Ti OC - SLI
win 7 ultimate 64bit Retail
128 gb SSD (boot)
1 TB HD (data)
1250w 85% efficient PSU
I have even tried enabling the onboard graphics and installed VirtU. Although ME3 did not crash, the "haze" or "rainbow" effect was there all the time. There was one thing I had noticed though. When I was trying out The Witcher 2's performance test, it only reported that my system had 4 gb of Ram. It should be . I ran the window memtest but no error was found.
What I had done now was that I had bought a Asus P8Z77-V LX motherboard. It was only £65. It has onboard graphics and has SLI as well. I have my eyes on an EVGA Z97 classified, again with onboard graphics. If the Asus doesn't work with SLI then I may as well upgrade to the latest. But back to present, I guess that becase the Z68 mbd was quite an old one and also not a popular board at the time, I could not get any advice on that one. It is quite frustrating. The rig is fast but the "haze" - sort of green tint on every thing and in a "rainbow" effect, or rings like pattern. That really killed the enjoyment.
The other question I like to put to SLI expert, can the SLI bridge make a difference? My last board was a XFX 790i Ultra SLI, the bridge was a stiff one. With this Z68, the bridge is a floppy one. Unfortunately, the distance between the two cards is different, XFX is further apart than the Gigabyte Z68, so I cannot use the bridge from XFX board. Any suggest wil be greatly appreciated.
Spec is:
Z68XP-UD3P
i5-2500K 3.3 ghz
2 x 4 gb Cosair 1600 ram
2 x MSI GeForce GTX 660 Ti OC - SLI
win 7 ultimate 64bit Retail
128 gb SSD (boot)
1 TB HD (data)
1250w 85% efficient PSU
I have even tried enabling the onboard graphics and installed VirtU. Although ME3 did not crash, the "haze" or "rainbow" effect was there all the time. There was one thing I had noticed though. When I was trying out The Witcher 2's performance test, it only reported that my system had 4 gb of Ram. It should be . I ran the window memtest but no error was found.
What I had done now was that I had bought a Asus P8Z77-V LX motherboard. It was only £65. It has onboard graphics and has SLI as well. I have my eyes on an EVGA Z97 classified, again with onboard graphics. If the Asus doesn't work with SLI then I may as well upgrade to the latest. But back to present, I guess that becase the Z68 mbd was quite an old one and also not a popular board at the time, I could not get any advice on that one. It is quite frustrating. The rig is fast but the "haze" - sort of green tint on every thing and in a "rainbow" effect, or rings like pattern. That really killed the enjoyment.
The other question I like to put to SLI expert, can the SLI bridge make a difference? My last board was a XFX 790i Ultra SLI, the bridge was a stiff one. With this Z68, the bridge is a floppy one. Unfortunately, the distance between the two cards is different, XFX is further apart than the Gigabyte Z68, so I cannot use the bridge from XFX board. Any suggest wil be greatly appreciated.
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