No SLI option in Nvidia Control Panel

WildCard999 · Dec 30, 2014

I've hooked both cards up in my EVGA X97 FTW MB in slot 1 & 2 and connected my SLI bridge. I do have a EVGA 750ti FTW on the 3rd PCI-E slot as a dedicated PhysX card. I turned the computer on and both the Nvidia Control Panel and Device manager both pick up all 3 cards. I went into Device manager and updated the drivers on the 2nd card in SLI. Then in the Nvidia Control Panel I set the 750TI for dedicated PhysX and tried to activate SLI "Maximize 3d Performance" but that option was not there. When I go into "Configure Surround, PhysX it shows all 3 cards but has the HDMI going from card 1 to my samsung tv. If SLI was enabled wouldn't it show both 780's connected? I also checked in "manage 3d settings" and there was no option that I could see for SLI. Any help would be much appreciated!

chenw · Dec 30, 2014

Try removing the 750Ti. That motherboard only runs on x8/x4/x4 when all 3 long PCI-E slots are populated, and the second card's x4 is thing that prevents you from enabling SLI

photonboy · Dec 30, 2014

*Your GTX750Ti is going to make things worse. You should remove it.

The 780's will end up waiting for the GTX750Ti to finish its physics calculations thus giving you a lower frame rate than by running with only the 780's.

WildCard999 · Dec 30, 2014

Chenw yea I think since I put in the SLI it made the it run x8 x4 x4. I was hoping it would run x8 x8 x4. Kind of wish I sprung for the Classified but its hard to justify a 300$ MB. Ok so let me take out that 750ti and try this again.

WildCard999 · Dec 30, 2014

I ran the benchmark in Batman: Origins and ran HWMonitor in the backround and it shows that my 2nd 780 has 0% GPU utilization so let me remove the 750ti. Ill brb.

chenw · Dec 30, 2014

I wouldn't have gone for the Classified either, the extra lanes on that motherboard are not native, it's PLX chip that is doing the magic (instead of each PCI slot running dedicated X8 lanes each, the slots are instead sharing all 16 lanes), which, from what I gather, is actually worse than running native.

It's mainly for running Tri or quad GPU on a budget, but I would have used X99 for tri or quad anyway.

WildCard999 · Dec 30, 2014

So it worked! Hooray lol! I set the PhysX to "Auto-Select" is that fine or should I dedicate it to the CPU or one of the GPUs? I only play 2 games that use PhysX, Borderlands & Batman and my CPU is a I7-4770K (stock clock).

chenw · Dec 30, 2014

I set it to auto-select, haven't found many issues with that setting.

WildCard999 · Dec 30, 2014

chenw :

Perfect, thanks a lot for your help!

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