Recently added SLI.

[Aaron Chavez]

Hello, so yesterday, I bought another evga 970 ftw for a sli build. Now when I went to test this beast on one of the benchmarks (Firestrike) i only got a score of 3.2k. What gives? I scored a 5.5k with just one before. Plus im not seeing much of a difference in game quality for the $380 bucks i just spent. I may be returning this card, if i don't see much improvement.

 

[werberman]

Ok cool, you may have a clear cmos button on the motherboard. Press that. It basically resets everything and does a self check. Try that and do a benchmark

Be prepared to lose your OC settings if they're BIOS level, though

 

[Ablangcj]

Nothing better than going back to stock to eliminate and troubleshoot problems. Plus it's not that stupid hard to restore your overclock.

 

[Aaron Chavez]

Did not work.. ugg. i got to go to a meeting, ill be back later to sort this out on here.. thanks for trying guys. brb

 

[werberman]

Nothing better than going back to stock to eliminate and troubleshoot problems. Plus it's not that stupid hard to restore your overclock.

Couldn't agree more - I think the rig might actually be working and something may be going on with the benchmark - Unless one of the GPUs is just burning electricity for no reason 😛
Unless Aaron Chavez has a UHD (or at least 1440p or a 3x1080p setup) the frame-rate difference may not be noticeable.
Really hard to say for sure, though without empirical evidence.

 

[Ablangcj]

Nothing better than going back to stock to eliminate and troubleshoot problems. Plus it's not that stupid hard to restore your overclock.

Couldn't agree more - I think the rig might actually be working and something may be going on with the benchmark - Unless one of the GPUs is just burning electricity for no reason 😛
Unless Aaron Chavez has a UHD (or at least 1440p or a 3x1080p setup) the frame-rate difference may not be noticeable.
Really hard to say for sure, though without empirical evidence.

Lol. Yeah i wonder if he is running 4k and we do not know about it.

Almost want to have him verify his SLI bridge is on correctly, power supply cables on, check to make sure the gpu is not connected to a PCI exp 2.0 port, try the other SLI slots.

 

[werberman]

Nothing better than going back to stock to eliminate and troubleshoot problems. Plus it's not that stupid hard to restore your overclock.

Couldn't agree more - I think the rig might actually be working and something may be going on with the benchmark - Unless one of the GPUs is just burning electricity for no reason 😛
Unless Aaron Chavez has a UHD (or at least 1440p or a 3x1080p setup) the frame-rate difference may not be noticeable.
Really hard to say for sure, though without empirical evidence.

Lol. Yeah i wonder if he is running 4k and we do not know about it.

Almost want to have him verify his SLI bridge is on correctly, power supply cables on, check to make sure the gpu is not connected to a PCI exp 2.0 port, try the other SLI slots.

My thoughts exactly - hopefully it's just a simple mistake that's causing this - I don't know about you, but I deal with enough SLI BS at home for a lifetime; wouldn't wish it on anyone else XS

 

[jitpublisher]

I have never had a problem with running SLI, plug the cards in, set everything correctly, and there is BIOS settings for it on my ASUS board, put bridge on correctly, enable it in the nVidia control panel, 70% increase in frame rates for most things I do, including benchmarks.

 

[werberman]

I have never had a problem with running SLI, plug the cards in, set everything correctly, and there is BIOS settings for it on my ASUS board, put bridge on correctly, enable it in the nVidia control panel, 70% increase in frame rates for most things I do, including benchmarks.

Strange, isn't it? Seems like something basic has been missed 😛