690gtx issue

paint skills are weak wiht this one...

also you could try and increase the power target to +20%, since those temps are reasonable and shouldn't cause throttling by themselves.

I would suggest you overclock your cpu to 4.5GHZ also Turn off windows upate
Uninstall the drivers. http://www.guru3d.com/files_details/guru3d_driver_sweep...(no_installer).html
Download driver fusion http://treexy.com/
Reboot system in safe mode and run driver fusion.
Reboot again.
Re-downloaded drivers http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
Turn on windows updates Go to nvdia control panel and change all your games power options to "maximum performance".

Make sure your cards get enough air and your case is well ventilated. Secondly reduce the clocks. When you find a stable clock where the GPU doesn't throttle, slowly work your way up. Other than that, reinstall your drivers and do some research on Google about GTX 690 throttling issues.

loool room mate took those screenshots. and i tried the 20% power target but still the 2nd car doesn't have a power target slider as you can see in screen shot

I tried that even reinstalled a fresh windows in order to make sure the driver files are ok

but i haven't tried over clocking the cpu yet. although honestly i didn't want to overclock anything in this computer

my case is well ventilated and it has enough fans running as ins and outs i don't know the proper English word for that lol



and btw I ran a stress test and for some reason after doing that the throttling is gone. but performance is still pretty low i will make the 3dmark test and link the results in a few

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/5176464
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/5176677

Please tell me your not running those on a 1080 display. Please tell me you have at least 3 x 30" displays with those cards, otherwise you need to be taken out back and beaten...

new monitors are coming soon  

Yeah that would be a issue running 690 in sli on a single 1080 display rofl! If i had 690 in sli i be running three BenQ XL2420T or three ASUS VG278H.Anything less then at least a single Dell UltraSharp U2711 would be pointless and a lost cause imo.

issue still there   any ideas? i only was able to get rid of the throttling

i thought the throttling was the issue?

Perhaps you could show us your GPU-Z screen shots of both cards info.

Honestly, with that setup, it is hard to know if you have an issue or are bottlenecked by the CPU. You may need to wait until you have your monitors before you can get meaningful info from benchmarks. A healthy CPU OC could help your 3dmark11 score. If a CPU OC increases your 3Dmark11 graphics score, then you clearly have a CPU bottleneck.

Make sure the cards are in the right PCI-e slots to optimize speed. not sure on the ASUS Rampage IV Extreme but on the EVGA Z77 it is slot 2 and 4. Uninstall everything, drivers etc. Reformat fresh install OS Install only one card and then install the drivers. Let the graphics card install and reboot into the OS. Once you see the card and two GPUs in device manager. Shut down the computer and install the second card. Boot up the computer and let the computer find the second card. Make sure that the device manger sees 4 GPUs. Shut down the computer and put the SLI bridge on. Boot up the computer and then look at what the NVIDIA control panel sees and then try to enable SLI. You should then be o.k. Sometimes installing multiple GPUs cards with the SLI cable on confused the installation. Try that. I know you did it once but do it again what do you have to lose it's worth a shot.If it works but then says Display not optimized probably means that the display resolution isn't set to native resolution.The only other suggestions i have is to overclock your cpu to 4.5GH if nothing works sign up a account here and ask for help http://www.overclock.net/t/1249960/official-nvidia-gtx-...