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Around scene 6 to 7, a black screen where my monitor displays no signal pops up. At this point it will either crash or pop back up, stutter and continue. One thing to note is I consistently get a read of 4.5 fps as my minimum read from this occurrence.
It happens in several other scenes past it, but I haven't kept track because I get frustrated watching a choppy benchmark.
It happens regardless of SLI enabled or disabled.
Heaven used to run just fine 6 months back. Any advice?
Specs:
i5 3570k @ 4.1ghz
asrock extreme4
16gb ddr3
2x 660ti
750w Coolermaster
120gb vertex 4 (ssd boot drive)
windows 7 home premium 64 bit
It happens in several other scenes past it, but I haven't kept track because I get frustrated watching a choppy benchmark.
It happens regardless of SLI enabled or disabled.
Heaven used to run just fine 6 months back. Any advice?
Specs:
i5 3570k @ 4.1ghz
asrock extreme4
16gb ddr3
2x 660ti
750w Coolermaster
120gb vertex 4 (ssd boot drive)
windows 7 home premium 64 bit
MeteorsRaining
September 29, 2014 2:28:01 AM
Xingu
September 29, 2014 12:15:04 AM
Yup, apply overclocking at system startup is the check box, hopefully it works like I expect. I'm calling Gigabyte tomorrow to see if there is any sort of compensation.
The PSU and used graphics cards were easy targets, but I refrain from kneejerk, prejudiced responses.
I do tests before concluding things. Maybe I should have provided further detail on the specs and condition of my parts to avoid misinterpretation next time.
It would have helped if you asked more questions, so I can know what you don't know. lol that sounded funny.
The PSU and used graphics cards were easy targets, but I refrain from kneejerk, prejudiced responses.
I do tests before concluding things. Maybe I should have provided further detail on the specs and condition of my parts to avoid misinterpretation next time.
It would have helped if you asked more questions, so I can know what you don't know. lol that sounded funny.
MeteorsRaining
September 28, 2014 8:37:22 PM
I'm glad you could identify the root cause, all eyes were on poor Asus! GB seems to have done a bad job checking for stability, but did you have the issue before you got the Asus card? That confuses me. Anyways, I'm not Nvidia user currently but if I'm not wrong, Afterburner does have some sort of permanent settings, not sure where, but they must be in clock speed or something similar, like a check box.
Xingu
September 28, 2014 12:22:54 PM
I think I got the root cause guys!
So I did an SLI run in Unigine Heaven 4.0 and just as I predicted the results were what I expected.
At default clocks, the black screen would happen and even artifacting, a clear sign something is clocked too high. The suspect being my gigabyte card.
I manually underclocked it in Afterburner by -50mhz on the core and did another SLI run. It ran solid with no "errors" as far as I can see.
What doesn't make sense to me is my cards are running SLI asynchonously. I thought SLI downclocked the faster clock to the slower one, my Asus runs 65mhz slower on the core than my Gigabyte.
In any case I think I can safely conclude this from our conversions:
-The PSU isn't an issue
-The SLI bridge is fine
-The card from eBay, even though it's used and I had it for a week, seems solid.
-Nothing wrong with my PCI 3.0 x16 slots
-Not an Nvidia driver issue
-Not an SLI issue, in fact SLI scaled good! About doubled my score as opposed to one.
-The Gigabyte card is clocked too high even though it's factory overclocked!
If you guys have any more integrity tests, I'm all ears. I care more about stability than raw frame rates.
Also is there a way for me to change the default clock on my Gigabyte so I don't have to underclock it everytime I restart my PC?
So I did an SLI run in Unigine Heaven 4.0 and just as I predicted the results were what I expected.
At default clocks, the black screen would happen and even artifacting, a clear sign something is clocked too high. The suspect being my gigabyte card.
I manually underclocked it in Afterburner by -50mhz on the core and did another SLI run. It ran solid with no "errors" as far as I can see.
What doesn't make sense to me is my cards are running SLI asynchonously. I thought SLI downclocked the faster clock to the slower one, my Asus runs 65mhz slower on the core than my Gigabyte.
In any case I think I can safely conclude this from our conversions:
-The PSU isn't an issue
-The SLI bridge is fine
-The card from eBay, even though it's used and I had it for a week, seems solid.
-Nothing wrong with my PCI 3.0 x16 slots
-Not an Nvidia driver issue
-Not an SLI issue, in fact SLI scaled good! About doubled my score as opposed to one.
-The Gigabyte card is clocked too high even though it's factory overclocked!
If you guys have any more integrity tests, I'm all ears. I care more about stability than raw frame rates.
Also is there a way for me to change the default clock on my Gigabyte so I don't have to underclock it everytime I restart my PC?
Xingu
September 28, 2014 11:31:40 AM
Update with good news.
The Asus is not a faulty card, it works great, tried Heaven 4, the arguably the most finicky stress test on both slots, works fine.
The Gigabyte consistently gave me that black screen, so I tried what I hated..underclocking. The no signal/crashing stopped by -50mhz on the core... It's factory overclocked and I hate to underclock!
Next up I'll try SLI again
but I have a good feeling
The Asus is not a faulty card, it works great, tried Heaven 4, the arguably the most finicky stress test on both slots, works fine.
The Gigabyte consistently gave me that black screen, so I tried what I hated..underclocking. The no signal/crashing stopped by -50mhz on the core... It's factory overclocked and I hate to underclock!
Next up I'll try SLI again
but I have a good feeling
MeteorsRaining
September 28, 2014 11:02:11 AM
Xingu
September 28, 2014 10:43:43 AM
Xingu
September 28, 2014 10:00:11 AM
Okay an update. I removed my cards physically and tested my cards one by one. My Gigabyte to my surprise still did that no signal frame that drops to 4.5. The Asus had a worse effect. My rig kept restarting like it was rejecting a body part. Note I used the top PCI 3.0 x16 slot where my Gigabyte originally resides for both tests.
MeteorsRaining
September 28, 2014 1:39:43 AM
Xingu
September 27, 2014 11:10:35 PM
MeteorsRaining said:
Replace the one you bought from eBay, it appears to be faulty, to me.Too hasty, it works on other games and applications just fine. I want to be sure your right so I think I'll test each card on heaven individually.
Cause it'll be a big hassle to go through with a replacement and find out the issue wasn't hardware.
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