Very low performance with 8800GTX SLI

El_Presidente · Post by **El_Presidente** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 2:17 pm

Hi, i have fight with this broblem ower week now. It would be wain to tell you all what i have test and talk with people regarding this problem, so i can give you link where you can read what i have done so far.
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=205527
Hope you have something new ideas

Post by **Apoptosis** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 7:04 pm

In all honesty return the cards... i've had several 8800GTX and some have had really weird issues... You might want to check the resistor value on R520 and see if you have one of the recalled boards... I saw strange stuff like that on boards with the bad resistors.

Safe yourself time and stress and just RMA the cards... honest advice although I know I wouldn't want to hear that if I was in your shoes. My new cards work fine and run 14,000 out of the box and 18,000 with a bump in CPU multiplier and no overclocking on the cards.

El_Presidente · Post by **El_Presidente** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 1:00 pm

i wil send those back as soon as possible.

Bwall · Post by **Bwall** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 1:37 pm

I don't think it is your cards. I took the 8800's used in this review from Nathan this week and have the exact same problem. I've tried everything to get these things to work. We are working with NVIDIA to sort this out.

Post by **Apoptosis** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 3:51 pm

user error

want to know how I know... (makes me think of this)

Cause I ran this the hour before I gave you the cards:

This was with no overclock on the video cards and no overclock on the memory (800MHz 4-4-4-12)... The processor was running default voltages and the multiplier was increased to reach 3.7GHz from 2.66GHz (QX6700). We are both running the 680i motherboard with P21 BIOS and the same video card driver...

Post by **Apoptosis** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 12:30 pm

wickedld9 wrote:I don't think it is your cards. I took the 8800's used in this review from Nathan this week and have the exact same problem. I've tried everything to get these things to work. We are working with NVIDIA to sort this out.

Brian hasn't updated this, so I will. He didn't have one of the 6-pin PCIe power headers plugged all the way in. After pushing it 'hard' into the header the system runs 3dmark06 just fine and he is scoring over 17,000 points in 3dmark06. There was no problem on his test system or the cards... like I said in my post kidding around last week it was after all 'user error'

zparker · Post by **zparker** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 12:14 pm

The processor was running default voltages and the multiplier was increased to reach 3.7GHz from 2.66GHz (QX6700)

You bastard... 14.8ghz of processing power:(

odie2190 · Post by **odie2190** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 12:14 am

Apoptosis wrote:user error

want to know how I know... (makes me think of this)

Cause I ran this the hour before I gave you the cards:

This was with no overclock on the video cards and no overclock on the memory (800MHz 4-4-4-12)... The processor was running default voltages and the multiplier was increased to reach 3.7GHz from 2.66GHz (QX6700). We are both running the 680i motherboard with P21 BIOS and the same video card driver...

what do you do with all this stuff after ur done voiding its warranty. does the manufacturer take it back or do u keep it for ur only personal use?

cause i thnk u should accidently mail it to my address one day