FW 85.96_mod for SLi on any chipset

[vanovich]

just disable that fly ,there where u anable sli gpu .and it will dissapear .

[nicepun]

just disable that fly ,there where u anable sli gpu .and it will dissapear .

O.K., I got it. I just have to disable "Show GPU Load Balancing".

[vanovich]

yep

[ccmarco]

Hi to all,

right now i'm testing a system with a Gigabyte DS4 (intel p965), Intel E6400 @ 3GHz (375*8) and dual 7900GT with flex SLI bridge and modded 85.96 drivers having no problem with 3DMarkXX bench but no way to run Doom3 and Quake 4.

Those games start and freeze during loading.

Is it a known issue ?

Thanks in advance for any help.

[pentium777]

which 2 slots are you guys using?i found the 2 black gives most performance .but the slots are very close and the gfx gets much warmer whats a good score ? this is what i got in 05 and sli .ps the gfx are std clks . http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=2257290

Use the standard 06 and I could tell ya, 05 I haven't used/installed since 06 came out.

[pentium777]

Hi, glad to hear you joined?

Unfortunately, 32bit only supported with the modded drivers from what I've seen.

A Gentleman by the name of "Sam" has done a wonderful job with the supply of these drivers. I'm using the 85.96version with modded inf. file for 2x7950gt's on a Asus P5B Deluxe with E6600 and 2gbs of OCZ Plat. PC2-1000 RAM. Works very well for me.

I'm interested to see how the "SLi Bridge" works, I'm not using a bridge so performance suffers a bit. I would like to get one. The one you have is "flexible"?.

Good Luck!

Without the SLI bridge (I have tried my setup without) performance suffers quite a bit. Although you might not realize unless you run extreme high demanding rendering like me (2560x1600) 4xAA, 16xAF, SSAA if you are running anything less than 1920x1600 and less than max on options you won't see as much difference in SLI, I see 90%-100% improvement in every application.

[Robilar]

Just wanted to post a quick thanks to Big Sam for the modded drivers. Working fine so far (benches to follow soon, just upgraded from an FX-57 and Asus A8N32-SLI).

[nicepun]

Just wanted to post a quick thanks to Big Sam for the modded drivers. Working fine so far (benches to follow soon, just upgraded from an FX-57 and Asus A8N32-SLI).

How do you like the upgrade? And do you see any difference in performance from the SLi stand point.

[Robilar]

Going from single to dual core was the single biggest boost in performance in "certain" applications. Gaming for example (i play call of duty 2 and GRAW) showed no changes that I could detect. Photoshop and powerpoint (both of which i use for work) are much snappier. I expect my 3dmark06 score to increase dramatically as well once i get the time to run benches. With my FX-57 overclocked to 3Ghz and my video cards running at 695/895, I scored 7776 in 3dmark06. I assume I'll be over 9k with the upgrade at stock and once I begin upgrading the processor, even better.

All in all I'm pleased. It would be nice to have whql drivers but until the nvidia 680i sli motherboards are out in november, this will do.

[pentium777]

Going from single to dual core was the single biggest boost in performance in "certain" applications. Gaming for example (i play call of duty 2 and GRAW) showed no changes that I could detect. Photoshop and powerpoint (both of which i use for work) are much snappier. I expect my 3dmark06 score to increase dramatically as well once i get the time to run benches. With my FX-57 overclocked to 3Ghz and my video cards running at 695/895, I scored 7776 in 3dmark06. I assume I'll be over 9k with the upgrade at stock and once I begin upgrading the processor, even better.

All in all I'm pleased. It would be nice to have whql drivers but until the nvidia 680i sli motherboards are out in november, this will do.

Nvidia 680i SLI ?? What's that all I know of is the 590

[pablo]

590 is scraped and that is what it will be replaced with. posible that it will have better oc abilities cause 590 (correct me if im wrong) has the c19 chip and it sucks thats why dfi scraped their board for the new chip

[pentium777]

590 is scraped and that is what it will be replaced with. posible that it will have better oc abilities cause 590 (correct me if im wrong) has the c19 chip and it sucks thats why dfi scraped their board for the new chip

Yes that's what I found but can't locate anywhere that lists the C55 (680i) new Nvidia overclock. Tell you though I definately experienced a much better installation and overall experience with the i975 chipset, you have to remember Intel does set the standard and Nvidia while OK has its issues such as problems with crackling on X-FI cards (not all but many)

Finding drivers and such were very easy and I believe a lot more testing QA goes into Intel chipsets.

[Complete]

680i will hit 510 FBS.

Nvidia knows if C55 fails.. noone will buy Nvidia chipsets anymore!

[pentium777]

680i will hit 510 FBS.

Nvidia knows if C55 fails.. noone will buy Nvidia chipsets anymore!

I'm not so sure, do you really think Nvidia cares that much about overclockers or xtreme system types of people? If they really cared that much about enthusiasts why so many emails to customers about how they won't support SLI on Intel chipsets?

[JoeBar]

This is a totaly different thing. This is about $$$...

[vanovich]

anyone tried running pcmark 05 with the 85,96 drivers? im getting an error in multithread1 ,encodec and filtration something .i was wondering if its these drivers doing so . even if i run std clks ,same error .

[yury2808]

vanovich: didnt tried pcmark, but all 3dmarks runs fine. but real games crash ALOT, so I get back to 84.56, which is rock-stable, at least for me.

[Reinvented]

Sam, I'm having problems where SLI would randomly get disabled.




And i'm greeted by stuff like that.

Any suggestions? Is it a problem with my board? As it was working fine for like 2 days.

[Big_Sam]

Sam, I'm having problems where SLI would randomly get disabled.




And i'm greeted by stuff like that.

Any suggestions? Is it a problem with my board? As it was working fine for like 2 days.

This is not a problem of the driver.

Your second card doesn't work.
You have the conflict of some devices. Some devices uses IRQ of your second card.

[Reinvented]

This is not a problem of the driver.

Your second card doesn't work.
You have the conflict of some devices. Some devices uses IRQ of your second card.

Ah ha...I see...

Well, off I go then to try and figure this out then.

Second card works perfectly fine. Tested them out individually. I hope you didn't mean that it went bad.

Edit: Thanks Sam for trying to help. Was actually a command in my boot.ini which was screwing with it. All is well now. 11k 3dmark06 stock.

[Robilar]

"Intel has recently teamed up with nVidia (or visa-versa) to allow users to officially run SLI dual graphics on Intel 975X based motherboards"

From this article:

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/93...hts/index.html

Dated August 2, 2006.

Does anyone else have any info on this?

[Reinvented]

I doubt we'll see anything really really soon. I'm gonna have to spring for either CF right now, or else wait for the 680i.

[penduzecat]

Thank you Big Sam for your drivers

You can find my bench with 7600gt@sli / 7900gto / 7900gto@sli / 7900 gto@sli 705/800 : http://www.pxl-lan.com/downloads/bench/

[yury2808]

penduzecat: as I see you dont use SLI bridge @ 7900 gto ? get one and you'll get more from the setup...

[penduzecat]

penduzecat: as I see you dont use SLI bridge @ 7900 gto ? get one and you'll get more from the setup...

http://www.pxl-lan.com/downloads/ben...0GTO_AvecPont/ <= with bridge

http://www.pxl-lan.com/downloads/ben...-800_AvecPont/ <= with bridge and gto @ 705/800