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Hey all,

I think my motherboard is broken and thinking about a new one.
Also my video card is acting strange.

1. I have a GTX 590 and I do not see the 2nd GPU anymore in the Nvidia software, neither in GPU-z nor in MSI Afterburner. I updated my drivers but nothing. This happened when I switched the dual usage off with the latest BF4 patch when flickering occurred. Now there is no option in the driver software to switch it back on again, even after a clean install.

2. If I by a new motherboard and new video card, will my older CPU bottleneck the performance of the new video card? I intent to buy a GTX 780, I currently have a i7-2600k CPU.

3. If I want to keep my CPU and get a new motherboard with the GTX780, what do I need?

Any suggestion and solutions are highly appreciated.

My comp is from Alienware, Aurora R3
Motherboard is Intel P67
8gb ram
GTX 590

 
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actually you dont need a 3.0 slot, a pcie 3.0 card is backwards compatible with 2.0 and there is only a .5 to 1 fps(3%) decrease in performance. so as long you have a psu to support it. you will be good to go
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your current cpu is good for a 780, little less performance than a 4770k but nothing severe. still a very valid cpu

are you saying you have 2x 590 and only one is populating? either way there is trouble shooting you can do before you declare failure
 
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I have one GTX 590, this is a dual GPU card. In the Nvidea driver you can select to use both GPUs or dedicate one for physx when SLI is activated.
Non of it is visible anymore.
 
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worst case scenario it is the gpu, if your pcie slot still detects and uses 1 of the 2 gpus on the pcb of the card then it is most likely it is the card.

does it populate in your bios as 2 seperate gpu's or does it just populate as a 590?
 
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I do not recall seeing anything in the BIOS ever regarding 1 or 2 GPUs.
I did see two GPU's in GPU-Z and also in MSI Afterburner.
It does indeed still uses one GPU, I had to lower my games settings though (BF4), but I can still play the game.

 
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when you say clean install did you use a software like ddu and uninstall all graphic drivers in safe mode? just need to rule out

next step would be trying the card in another setup just to see if both gpu's populate.

have you experienced blackscreens or freezing when both gpu's were working?
 
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I mean clean install within the new install of Nvidia, it asks when installing new driver if you want a clean install.
Did have some freezes, and 2 beeb and 5 beeb bios error codes.
 
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did it all, no change.
the "SLI enabled" should be visible under the 3D settings but it shows only one GTX590, it used to be two?
Bummer, I think its jacked up.
also I checked the bios, there is no selection regarding SLI, multiple GPU, crossfire or what so ever.
 
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yes unfortunately it sounds like one of the gpu's went out....if you can try it in a friends setup before you trash it, if your in the market for a new card i would suggest the 780 or if you got some money and can wait a month or so the 790 is coming out soon.
 
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That is what i feared. what about keeping the i7-2600k? If i want to use the pci express 3.0 for either the 780 or 790, is there a motherboard that will have pci express 3.0 and a socket for the -i7-2600k?
Thank you very much for your help!
 
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actually you dont need a 3.0 slot, a pcie 3.0 card is backwards compatible with 2.0 and there is only a .5 to 1 fps(3%) decrease in performance. so as long you have a psu to support it. you will be good to go
 
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you wouldnt even need a new mobo the performance difference in the pcie generations 3.0/2.0 are literally almost the same, you will not see a difference and almost all the boards on that socket have pcie 2.0 i believe. i would just get the graphics card and you would be set.

if it makes you feel better all the boards except a few are pcie 2.0 because there is no point in having pcie 3.0 yet. by the time you will need a mobo that supports pcie 3.0 you will most likely need a new processor as well. you can still get a coupe years out of that cpu and mobo combo
 
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