- Jun 24, 2013
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A little background info first. My motherboard is literally one day old, and so is my Windows 8.1 install. I had to upgrade to a mobo with SLI support.
I finally got my second GTX 970 in today and eagerly threw it into my rig. The install went without a hitch, I found the SLI settings in Nvidia control panel and then turned them on.
First thing I did was set up all my MSI afterburner info and fan profiles up and then fired up the Unigine Heaven benchmark. This is what I got:
http://imgur.com/rjTL0GF
I was very happy. Nearly a 100% increase in performance. I then went and tried Far Cry 4 and saw FPS between 19 and 21. At first I thought maybe SLI wasn't working so I set up the SLI watermark/green bar to make sure that it was working. Sure enough it was working as intended. Now, I was getting pretty low performance in Far Cry 4 before I went SLI anyway so I just chocked it up to another Ubishit title.
Next I tried Saints Row 3. Yesterday I was getting 60-90 FPS and now I am getting less than 30. The SLI watermark is also visible in game. I'm also getting bad performance in Saints row 4 but it's hard to be scientific there because the performance before SLI was terrible as well.
In DMC: Devil may cry I am seeing over 240 FPS. It's the first game I've seen so far that seems to be working as intended.
Why am I seeing such weird performance?
Here are my specs:
* GTX 970 SLI
* FX 8350 @ 4 Ghz with hyper evo 212+
* ASus M5A99FX PRO R2.0 (1 day old with all drivers installed)
* 950 Watt PSU
* Windows 8.1 (1 day old)
* 120 GB SSD
* 1 TB HDD
I finally got my second GTX 970 in today and eagerly threw it into my rig. The install went without a hitch, I found the SLI settings in Nvidia control panel and then turned them on.
First thing I did was set up all my MSI afterburner info and fan profiles up and then fired up the Unigine Heaven benchmark. This is what I got:
http://imgur.com/rjTL0GF
I was very happy. Nearly a 100% increase in performance. I then went and tried Far Cry 4 and saw FPS between 19 and 21. At first I thought maybe SLI wasn't working so I set up the SLI watermark/green bar to make sure that it was working. Sure enough it was working as intended. Now, I was getting pretty low performance in Far Cry 4 before I went SLI anyway so I just chocked it up to another Ubishit title.
Next I tried Saints Row 3. Yesterday I was getting 60-90 FPS and now I am getting less than 30. The SLI watermark is also visible in game. I'm also getting bad performance in Saints row 4 but it's hard to be scientific there because the performance before SLI was terrible as well.
In DMC: Devil may cry I am seeing over 240 FPS. It's the first game I've seen so far that seems to be working as intended.
Why am I seeing such weird performance?
Here are my specs:
* GTX 970 SLI
* FX 8350 @ 4 Ghz with hyper evo 212+
* ASus M5A99FX PRO R2.0 (1 day old with all drivers installed)
* 950 Watt PSU
* Windows 8.1 (1 day old)
* 120 GB SSD
* 1 TB HDD
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