Have a few SLI configurations questions.

[Globber]

Hi Tom's,
So, my GPU went down to basically where it cost me half price of the first GPU. Without question I jumped on it and grabbed another 780 Classified for SLI. I have never set up SLI before and just want to grab some quick feedback to make sure I have it right. I am used to running ATI cards so SLI is new to me. I was under the impression i would have to uninstall drivers then install the cards and then reinstall drivers. The NVidia website says that reinstalling drivers is no longer necessary, is this correct? Is it as simple as installing the hardware then powering up my system and allowing my system to detect hardware then entering NVidia Control Panel and configuring SLI from there?

Part 2
I am currently running LN2 BIOS on my first card that came with 80.80.21.01.80 and I flashed over it with Skyn3t Rev3 BIOS. The new card is 80.80.31.01.80 so I planned on flashing with Skyn3t Rev4 BIOS. Would I be best off flashing the first card's BIOS with Rev4 as well? Or since it came with stock 80.80.21.01.80 would I only be able to run Skyn3t Rev3 BIOS on the first card? Any advice would be awesome!!

I just want to make sure I am understanding the setup correctly, thanks for help!

 

[bignastyid]

Yeah you don't have to reinstall drivers. but I usually do anyway. As far as the bios I don't know I usually don't mess with the video cards bios unless there is a problem.

 

[Globber]

I just uninstalled my drivers and clean installed the new driver, 344.11. I am planning on switching back to my stock LN1 BIOS at default settings to get my SLI set up, seems like the best plan anyway. I can flash my LN2 back to stock and just run stock LN2 on both as well.

 

[Globber]

I just swapped back to LN1 for my SLI setup. Considering the airflow for my case my max OC(until water loop is built) is sitting comfortable at 1228Mhz. Higher than that is getting me over 80C on my top card. There were no issues during setup other than right at first, first attempt black screened me. So I took off SLI bridge, rebooted and configured SLI, then shutdown and re-installed SLI bridge and installation from there on was a breeze! Increased framerates by about 55% give or take a little headroom depending on programs. Thanks for the tips on power, no issues with the adapter being used. BIOS is still up in the air, for now I have triple copies of my .rom files saved external and internal. I will probably at least take the old card and update LN1 to the BIOS version that just came with my new card so they sync better. Thanks!!