9600GT SLi woes :(

[Micketh]

Hi, I've just got my 2 9600GT's today. I've installed them in the system and I just get crashing issues in all games, they got through 3dmark 05 and 06...

When I play BFV BF2 or Frontlines (only games ive tested) after about 10 minutes I get a tear across the screen then the sound starts to repeat itself and the screen flickers extremely quickly. Evetually ending up on a plain black screen? Im currently using 174.16 drivers from the nvidia website WHQL of course. I've also tried 174.31.

I'm starting to get rather annoyed!

Anybody got any ideas?

[AnarchyCow]

Well, at first I thought inadequate power? What power supply do you have? (Picture of the sticker).
I'm pretty sure it takes 700W+ to run SLI.

If you have good power, watch the temperatures. I don't think a power issue would cause tearing, but, I think that it would probably be overheating, causing artifacts, and eventually a shutdown?

Try playing again, use something, and log the temperatures?

[Waymon3X6]

it sounds like the cards are overheating. Monitor the temps with RivaTuner and make sure the core doesn't get above 90C. Personally, I would consider 60C to be hot but I see people with stock cooling on their cards getting well above that on load. The GTX idles at around 57C I believe.

Just make sure the temps don't exceed 90C

[Micketh]

Tempratures seem fine, 34c idle 53c load according to rivatuner 2.07.

I think it might be a power issue, this psu has been quite poor to be honest.

[railmeat]

"I think it might be a power issue, this psu has been quite poor to be honest."

minumum 700watt TRUE powersupply is needed,until then rule out anything else.a good $200 powersupply is the basics for sli...

what powersupply are u running??????(please answer this question)if not no one can help u.





if power supply is totally taken out of the equation then read below.

X-Fi Xtreme Music -go to creatives site right now!and grab the software autoupdate for starters.my X-Fi Xtreme Music was buggy MANY times with single gtx in it before i got the update on the creative site.

this may sound like a strech but keep the cards at STOCK being the lowly
e4300 might not be enough cpu power to push those in sli?just a thought.
e6400 minumum i imagine would do the trick o\c to 3.2 minumum.