A8N-SLI Deluxe/Premium thread - Page 15

bap4201 · 01-14-2005, 12:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fvbounty

Does it read them on the High side or something? Thanks for any help

yes, if I use 66.93 driver, it shows 51 idle which is normal. If I use 71.24 it shows 74 idle!

I don't know why it is reading incorrectly, probably because it does not directly define support for 6800 cards?

Walt12 · 01-14-2005, 02:46 PM

Also using 71.24's and temp readings for 6600GT's are fine.

Also note new 1003.008 beta BIOS in this thread over at Xtreme.

Haven't tried it myself yet ...

fvbounty · 01-14-2005, 05:27 PM

Just got everthing working, so far so good, using 66.93 drivers idle temps are 41 top card 38 bottom card no side panels, cpu 38 motherboard 36. Downloading 3DMark 05 right now, will post back when I run it....

fvbounty · 01-14-2005, 05:58 PM

Just ran thru 3DMark 05 and got 8745 everything stock, ran smooth keeping my fingers crossed...

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=480524

bap4201 · 01-14-2005, 06:56 PM

good news, you need to update your signature because we have no idea what you are referring to.

fvbounty · 01-14-2005, 07:16 PM

Thanks, I did just update my sig Thanks for reminding me....and thanks to everyone here on this thread for the Help...

fvbounty · 01-14-2005, 07:49 PM

Just ran 3DMark 2001 and got a score of 25262....

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=8368890

DaSilva · 01-15-2005, 04:41 AM

Hya.
I'm running an A8N-SLi with an Athlon64 3500+, 2x512MB Corsiar Valueram and 2 MSi 6800 cards in SLi and I get a score in 3DMark05 of 2913.
Isn't that a bit low?
Before I got the same setup with an X800-XT and had about 5600 marks in 3DMark05.

The benchmark starts ok but then after a minute I get a drop of 30-35 fps and everything starts to stutter.
I even can't get over 8 fps then.

The motherboard is running 1002 BIOS and Nforce drivers supplied with the CD.
Videocards are running 71.24 drivers and are non OC'd.
SLi is enabled in BIOS and in the drivers.
I also tried setting SLi mode to auto in BIOS.

Is this a temp problem maybe (Card 1 has about 70 degrees Celsius and card 2 56 degrees Celcius.)

Glorfy · 01-15-2005, 04:49 AM

DaSilva - thats is not right at all! I'm assumiing they are the standard 6800s - not GTs or Ultras - and as such don't have an extra power connector.

What PSU are you using.?

Have you connected the EZ Plug molex connector to the motherboard?

Have you tried different drivers? 71.24 are known to report temperatures differently (read higher) than earlier drivers, and as such MAY throttle too early. How are you getting the temperatures? Are they at idle?

Lastly have you checkedc in device manager that both cards are active?

DaSilva · 01-15-2005, 05:27 AM

Hey Glorfy thanks for the fast reply!

Yup these are the standard 6800s without an extra power connector.
I also have connected the EZ molex plug.
My PSU is an Antec Neopower 480Watt.
Both cards are active in device manager and they both work in 3D (I tried the option to show load balance between cards in D3D).
For drivers I have also tried the 67.03 drivers but they gave the same result.

Going to try a clean Windows install now but I don't think this will make a difference because now I used drivercleaner to get rid of the ATi drivers.

Glorfy · 01-15-2005, 07:45 AM

Hmm... I had an Antec Neopower 480 - it wouldn't run my system at all! Even clocking back to 310 it would still crash - but it would crash, not slow down! I used a second PSU initially to prove that my problem was PSU related..

Are your temps showing any better with the different drivers? Can you check what they are at load? Is have you any monitoring software, just to confirm temps while 3D is running? If not download RTHDRIBL, and run it with the temperature window open - note this will oinly stress GPU 1.

If its any comfort to you - you're not alone! My cards won't work in SLI at all any more - though they are fine seperately - go figure!

bap4201 · 01-15-2005, 07:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DaSilva

Hya.
I'm running an A8N-SLi with an Athlon64 3500+, 2x512MB Corsiar Valueram and 2 MSi 6800 cards in SLi and I get a score in 3DMark05 of 2913.
Isn't that a bit low?
Before I got the same setup with an X800-XT and had about 5600 marks in 3DMark05.

The benchmark starts ok but then after a minute I get a drop of 30-35 fps and everything starts to stutter.
I even can't get over 8 fps then.

The motherboard is running 1002 BIOS and Nforce drivers supplied with the CD.
Videocards are running 71.24 drivers and are non OC'd.
SLi is enabled in BIOS and in the drivers.
I also tried setting SLi mode to auto in BIOS.

Is this a temp problem maybe (Card 1 has about 70 degrees Celsius and card 2 56 degrees Celcius.)

Did you go into the Nvidia display settings (right click desktop choose "nvidia display settings) choose Performance and Quality Settings. Put a check in "Show advanced settings" Make sure "sli rendering mode" is set to " SLI Multi GPU rendering" NOT SINGLE GPU RENDERING!

I also change from "quality" to "performance" Hope this helps! Let us know!!!

I'm getting 30,874 marks in 01 and 10,014 marks in 05. But I have my mobo oc'ed to 2.8 and video 400/1.6

PS: as far as temp goes, I'm glad to see your getting 71c or so. Because I am too.

I think that 71.24 reports temps wrong, because if I install 66.93 I get a normal temp of like 49-51c idle. I downloaded 71.24 from guru3d, in the extracted files is a "modded" inf file and the instructions show to replace your original file in the installation folder if your video card is NOT supported. Well 6800 is NOT supported per the read me. I replaced w/ the modded inf, and when rebooted, sli was recognized, but in the properties display there was no tab for sli or extended performance settings. So I put it back and did NOT use the modded inf file. However, I believe the temps are wrong.

:wave2:

bap4201 · 01-15-2005, 08:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fvbounty

Just ran thru 3DMark 05 and got 8745 everything stock, ran smooth keeping my fingers crossed...

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=480524

Great!!!

Now OC that baby and push it further!!!

Incidentally, what memory are you using?

DaSilva · 01-15-2005, 09:20 AM

OMG just did that bap4201 and I got my score boosted to 6813 in 3DMark05.
This is what I should be getting I guess!!!
Thanks a lot guys for the help

I just wonder why they "hide" that SLi option in the drivers and just show the "Enable SLi Multi-GPU" option that actully doesn't really enable multi-GPU.

Oh well I guess it's just me getting used to the drivers as Nvidia-newbee

bap4201 · 01-15-2005, 09:31 AM

Salute! Well I suppose this is the cause of others problems too. Glad its working for ya!

01-14-2005, 02:46 PM	#212
Walt12 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Auckland Posts: 41	Also using 71.24's and temp readings for 6600GT's are fine. Also note new 1003.008 beta BIOS in this thread over at Xtreme. Haven't tried it myself yet ... __________________ Cheers A64 3200+@2.43 @ 1.45v \| TT 735 Polo HSF \| Asus A8N-SLI Dlx BIOS 1003.006 beta \| 2x HyperX PC3200 (BH-5) 512Mb 203MHz 2-2-2-10 @ 2.9v \| 2x Albatron PC6600GT's in SLI @550/1100 71.24 drivers\| 2x 36GB Raptors RAID 0\| Maxtor 120GB SATA \| NEC3500A \| Samsung 172X TFT
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01-14-2005, 05:27 PM	#213
fvbounty Eat Wild Pacific Salmon Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Alameda Ca Posts: 5,167	Just got everthing working, so far so good, using 66.93 drivers idle temps are 41 top card 38 bottom card no side panels, cpu 38 motherboard 36. Downloading 3DMark 05 right now, will post back when I run it.... __________________ New Gaming rig - Asus P5E3 Deluxe Wi-Fi - Intel QX9650 - CORSAIR TWIN3X2048-1600C7DHXIN 2GB PC3-12800 - 150 gig Raptor - 320 gig WD 3200YS - Corsair HX 620 watt PS - EVGA 512-P3-N841-A3 GeForce 8800GTS (G92) 512MB - AMD FX 55 - XP-90C & SilentCat 9 - Asus A8N-SLI with Swiftech MCX159 - 2X1024 Corsair 3500LLPro 2-3-2-6 1T - 2X BFG 6800GT OC Zalman VF700-CU - 1 WD 74 Gig Raptor boot - 1 Seagate 7200 sata data - Nec 3500A - Plextor 716AL Slot Loader - Enermax EG 701 AX 600 watt PS - Silverstone Temjin TJ03B case with side window - G7 lazer mouse - Cannon Pixma I8500 printer - Windows XP Pro SP2 Slipstreamed - Dell 2405FPW lcd
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01-14-2005, 05:58 PM	#214
fvbounty Eat Wild Pacific Salmon Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Alameda Ca Posts: 5,167	Just ran thru 3DMark 05 and got 8745 everything stock, ran smooth keeping my fingers crossed... http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=480524 __________________ New Gaming rig - Asus P5E3 Deluxe Wi-Fi - Intel QX9650 - CORSAIR TWIN3X2048-1600C7DHXIN 2GB PC3-12800 - 150 gig Raptor - 320 gig WD 3200YS - Corsair HX 620 watt PS - EVGA 512-P3-N841-A3 GeForce 8800GTS (G92) 512MB - AMD FX 55 - XP-90C & SilentCat 9 - Asus A8N-SLI with Swiftech MCX159 - 2X1024 Corsair 3500LLPro 2-3-2-6 1T - 2X BFG 6800GT OC Zalman VF700-CU - 1 WD 74 Gig Raptor boot - 1 Seagate 7200 sata data - Nec 3500A - Plextor 716AL Slot Loader - Enermax EG 701 AX 600 watt PS - Silverstone Temjin TJ03B case with side window - G7 lazer mouse - Cannon Pixma I8500 printer - Windows XP Pro SP2 Slipstreamed - Dell 2405FPW lcd
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01-14-2005, 06:56 PM	#215
bap4201 Registered User Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: White Mountains, New Hampshire Posts: 152	good news, you need to update your signature because we have no idea what you are referring to. __________________ Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe (bios 1004.001 beta) \| A64 FX-55 (250x11) \| 2x 512 Mb OCZ PC3200 (2.5-3-3-10 1T 1:1) \| 2x eVGA 6800 Ultra / SLI Mode \| OCZ PSU 600w \| 2x 74GB Raptors RAID 0\| SB Audigy ZS \| Lian Li Black Full Tower \| Koolance Exos Liquid Cooling \| Win XP Pro sp2 slipstream \| Viewsonic P95F+B 19” PerfectFlat
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01-14-2005, 07:16 PM	#216
fvbounty Eat Wild Pacific Salmon Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Alameda Ca Posts: 5,167	Thanks, I did just update my sig Thanks for reminding me....and thanks to everyone here on this thread for the Help... __________________ New Gaming rig - Asus P5E3 Deluxe Wi-Fi - Intel QX9650 - CORSAIR TWIN3X2048-1600C7DHXIN 2GB PC3-12800 - 150 gig Raptor - 320 gig WD 3200YS - Corsair HX 620 watt PS - EVGA 512-P3-N841-A3 GeForce 8800GTS (G92) 512MB - AMD FX 55 - XP-90C & SilentCat 9 - Asus A8N-SLI with Swiftech MCX159 - 2X1024 Corsair 3500LLPro 2-3-2-6 1T - 2X BFG 6800GT OC Zalman VF700-CU - 1 WD 74 Gig Raptor boot - 1 Seagate 7200 sata data - Nec 3500A - Plextor 716AL Slot Loader - Enermax EG 701 AX 600 watt PS - Silverstone Temjin TJ03B case with side window - G7 lazer mouse - Cannon Pixma I8500 printer - Windows XP Pro SP2 Slipstreamed - Dell 2405FPW lcd
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01-14-2005, 07:49 PM	#217
fvbounty Eat Wild Pacific Salmon Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Alameda Ca Posts: 5,167	Just ran 3DMark 2001 and got a score of 25262.... http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=8368890 __________________ New Gaming rig - Asus P5E3 Deluxe Wi-Fi - Intel QX9650 - CORSAIR TWIN3X2048-1600C7DHXIN 2GB PC3-12800 - 150 gig Raptor - 320 gig WD 3200YS - Corsair HX 620 watt PS - EVGA 512-P3-N841-A3 GeForce 8800GTS (G92) 512MB - AMD FX 55 - XP-90C & SilentCat 9 - Asus A8N-SLI with Swiftech MCX159 - 2X1024 Corsair 3500LLPro 2-3-2-6 1T - 2X BFG 6800GT OC Zalman VF700-CU - 1 WD 74 Gig Raptor boot - 1 Seagate 7200 sata data - Nec 3500A - Plextor 716AL Slot Loader - Enermax EG 701 AX 600 watt PS - Silverstone Temjin TJ03B case with side window - G7 lazer mouse - Cannon Pixma I8500 printer - Windows XP Pro SP2 Slipstreamed - Dell 2405FPW lcd
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01-15-2005, 04:41 AM	#218
DaSilva Registered User Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 72	Hya. I'm running an A8N-SLi with an Athlon64 3500+, 2x512MB Corsiar Valueram and 2 MSi 6800 cards in SLi and I get a score in 3DMark05 of 2913. Isn't that a bit low? Before I got the same setup with an X800-XT and had about 5600 marks in 3DMark05. The benchmark starts ok but then after a minute I get a drop of 30-35 fps and everything starts to stutter. I even can't get over 8 fps then. The motherboard is running 1002 BIOS and Nforce drivers supplied with the CD. Videocards are running 71.24 drivers and are non OC'd. SLi is enabled in BIOS and in the drivers. I also tried setting SLi mode to auto in BIOS. Is this a temp problem maybe (Card 1 has about 70 degrees Celsius and card 2 56 degrees Celcius.)
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01-15-2005, 04:49 AM	#219
Glorfy Registered User Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Banbury, UK Posts: 150	DaSilva - thats is not right at all! I'm assumiing they are the standard 6800s - not GTs or Ultras - and as such don't have an extra power connector. What PSU are you using.? Have you connected the EZ Plug molex connector to the motherboard? Have you tried different drivers? 71.24 are known to report temperatures differently (read higher) than earlier drivers, and as such MAY throttle too early. How are you getting the temperatures? Are they at idle? Lastly have you checkedc in device manager that both cards are active? __________________ DFI Nf4 SLI-DR A64 3800 X2 OCZ 3200 Platinum Limited Editon (BH6) 2XLeadtek 6800 GT OCZ 600 PSU Prometeia Mach II
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01-15-2005, 05:27 AM	#220
DaSilva Registered User Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 72	Hey Glorfy thanks for the fast reply! Yup these are the standard 6800s without an extra power connector. I also have connected the EZ molex plug. My PSU is an Antec Neopower 480Watt. Both cards are active in device manager and they both work in 3D (I tried the option to show load balance between cards in D3D). For drivers I have also tried the 67.03 drivers but they gave the same result. Going to try a clean Windows install now but I don't think this will make a difference because now I used drivercleaner to get rid of the ATi drivers.
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01-15-2005, 07:45 AM	#221
Glorfy Registered User Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Banbury, UK Posts: 150	Hmm... I had an Antec Neopower 480 - it wouldn't run my system at all! Even clocking back to 310 it would still crash - but it would crash, not slow down! I used a second PSU initially to prove that my problem was PSU related.. Are your temps showing any better with the different drivers? Can you check what they are at load? Is have you any monitoring software, just to confirm temps while 3D is running? If not download RTHDRIBL, and run it with the temperature window open - note this will oinly stress GPU 1. If its any comfort to you - you're not alone! My cards won't work in SLI at all any more - though they are fine seperately - go figure! __________________ DFI Nf4 SLI-DR A64 3800 X2 OCZ 3200 Platinum Limited Editon (BH6) 2XLeadtek 6800 GT OCZ 600 PSU Prometeia Mach II
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01-15-2005, 09:20 AM	#224
DaSilva Registered User Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 72	OMG just did that bap4201 and I got my score boosted to 6813 in 3DMark05. This is what I should be getting I guess!!! Thanks a lot guys for the help I just wonder why they "hide" that SLi option in the drivers and just show the "Enable SLi Multi-GPU" option that actully doesn't really enable multi-GPU. Oh well I guess it's just me getting used to the drivers as Nvidia-newbee
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01-15-2005, 09:31 AM	#225
bap4201 Registered User Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: White Mountains, New Hampshire Posts: 152	Salute! Well I suppose this is the cause of others problems too. Glad its working for ya! __________________ Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe (bios 1004.001 beta) \| A64 FX-55 (250x11) \| 2x 512 Mb OCZ PC3200 (2.5-3-3-10 1T 1:1) \| 2x eVGA 6800 Ultra / SLI Mode \| OCZ PSU 600w \| 2x 74GB Raptors RAID 0\| SB Audigy ZS \| Lian Li Black Full Tower \| Koolance Exos Liquid Cooling \| Win XP Pro sp2 slipstream \| Viewsonic P95F+B 19” PerfectFlat
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