I noticed yesterday when I ran 3D Mark Vantage that the Graphics score is much lower than it should be at with these cards. Ive already ran 3D mark vantage multiple times before and got a correct score. My normal score is about 40k in vantage, yesterday it was only hitting 32k and the GPU score was 27k, usually that is around 35k
Here is my best vantage score, remember that now my cards can only hit 27k, and this just happened out of nowhere, I havnt made any changes to my comp.
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=2267051
I also noticed odd behavior with the cards, at some points in the graphics test the FPS will be where it should be, at other points it is much lower than it should be, the fps range is about 25 to 150 in the Jane Nash test. I have already reinstalled the drivers. Also the GPU usage is going all over the place, from 45% up to about 95%.
I tested each card by themselves and they both run fine, they get around 19k each on vantage. The GPU usage also stays at about 99% during the whole test, it doesnt fluctuate as much as it does in SLI. I have messed with the AFR settings in the Nvidia control panel and the multi display mode and neither of them makes a difference.
I have reflashed the BIOS and left everything at default and then I got a 22k GPU score. I then overclocked my system to my normal settings and it got a 27k score again. When the single card is running it seems to run smoother and the FPS range doesnt change so much.
Both cards are running because even a 27k GPU score is to high for a single 480. SLI is enabled in nvidia control panel also. The temps for both cards are also fine, they are actually lower than what they normally get in vantage
I have gone from the newest 257.21 drivers, the 257.15 beta drivers and the 197.41 drivers and they all have very poor performance when running SLI. I also have a back up windows 7 partition and I ran Vantage on that and it still got the low Vantage score, so it cant be some setting in windows when they both get the same score. The windows 7 rating score actually got a 7.8 for the graphics card on default settings, two GTX 480's SLI only getting a 7.8?
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=2267051
Any ideas what is wrong here? I have pretty much come to the conclusion that there is something wrong with the motherboard.
i7 950 @ 4.13
12Gigs of DDR3 1600Mhz @ 1803Mhz
EVGA SLI classified E760
Here is my best vantage score, remember that now my cards can only hit 27k, and this just happened out of nowhere, I havnt made any changes to my comp.
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=2267051
I also noticed odd behavior with the cards, at some points in the graphics test the FPS will be where it should be, at other points it is much lower than it should be, the fps range is about 25 to 150 in the Jane Nash test. I have already reinstalled the drivers. Also the GPU usage is going all over the place, from 45% up to about 95%.
I tested each card by themselves and they both run fine, they get around 19k each on vantage. The GPU usage also stays at about 99% during the whole test, it doesnt fluctuate as much as it does in SLI. I have messed with the AFR settings in the Nvidia control panel and the multi display mode and neither of them makes a difference.
I have reflashed the BIOS and left everything at default and then I got a 22k GPU score. I then overclocked my system to my normal settings and it got a 27k score again. When the single card is running it seems to run smoother and the FPS range doesnt change so much.
Both cards are running because even a 27k GPU score is to high for a single 480. SLI is enabled in nvidia control panel also. The temps for both cards are also fine, they are actually lower than what they normally get in vantage
I have gone from the newest 257.21 drivers, the 257.15 beta drivers and the 197.41 drivers and they all have very poor performance when running SLI. I also have a back up windows 7 partition and I ran Vantage on that and it still got the low Vantage score, so it cant be some setting in windows when they both get the same score. The windows 7 rating score actually got a 7.8 for the graphics card on default settings, two GTX 480's SLI only getting a 7.8?
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=2267051
Any ideas what is wrong here? I have pretty much come to the conclusion that there is something wrong with the motherboard.
i7 950 @ 4.13
12Gigs of DDR3 1600Mhz @ 1803Mhz
EVGA SLI classified E760