Here it comes.....8800gtx

Kintarō Hattori

gline wrote:

yeh i know man i know..... but it was a REAL spur of the moment thing, i was in town and i thought, what the hell il buy a psu.

geez i should just setup a tab in there or something

they didnt have rj12 connectors or a serial cable though

Indeed Sir. In fairness some of them could do with a swift kick up the arse. I can't say anything about rj12 connectors as I don't order them but I know for a fact that we have Sata cables in stock.


(Just clarifying I was kidding calling you a Moron!!)

gline

eo980 wrote:

Indeed Sir. In fairness some of them could do with a swift kick up the arse. I can't say anything about rj12 connectors as I don't order them but I know for a fact that we have Sata cables in stock.


(Just clarifying I was kidding calling you a Moron!!)

no i meant SEIAL cable, as in OLD coms cable

and i know u were kidding hehe

Kintarō Hattori

Ahhh fair enough. Yeah not the most popular stuff these days.

gline

eo980 wrote:

Ahhh fair enough. Yeah not the most popular stuff these days.

ah i know, i was chancin my arm were you in work yesterday by an chance?

gline

well i installed the 2x 8800gtx's on the secondary psu and happy days i was able to run a 3dmark 06, but major issue still, preformance is dog slow - 7k in 3dmark 06 with sli enabled, if i disable it it runs maybe 3 times faster

any fixes for this?

Cuddlesworth

gline wrote:

they didnt have rj12 connectors or a serial cable though

Cant picture many people going into Peats to buy connections that are only really used for internal digital phone systems.

gline

krazy_8s wrote:

Cant picture many people going into Peats to buy connections that are only really used for internal digital phone systems.

well they sell a lot of different types of connectors etc, so i thought they might have one

Kintarō Hattori

gline wrote:

ah i know, i was chancin my arm were you in work yesterday by an chance?

I was for a while, just a few hours.

Flaccus

gline wrote:

well i installed the 2x 8800gtx's on the secondary psu and happy days i was able to run a 3dmark 06, but major issue still, preformance is dog slow - 7k in 3dmark 06 with sli enabled, if i disable it it runs maybe 3 times faster

any fixes for this?

Reinstall the G80 driver. Sometime sli is not enabled properly. The driver is buggy. Also reinstall DX9. If that fails then it's the bios. Some people has reported it kills 06 performance. If you backed up the old bios, you can flash it back and run the 2nd gtx in the 2nd slot. Only 8x performance but still faster then your current situation.

gline

Flaccus wrote:

Reinstall the G80 driver. Sometime sli is not enabled properly. The driver is buggy. Also reinstall DX9. If that fails then it's the bios. Some people has reported it kills 06 performance. If you backed up the old bios, you can flash it back and run the 2nd gtx in the 2nd slot. Only 8x performance but still faster then your current situation.

ah im not gonna do all that
il wait until they release a proper bios and/or drivers for sli

i cant use the other slots as every slot bar one pci is taken up with devices.

might just run it with sli off for now and wait for a bios or drivers

ive read on some forums of guys that are having problems with it and they have to reinstall every few days to get it to work , im not bothered about doing that

Flaccus

Plenty of people have it working perfectly in sli too. If it was me I would be trying to solve the problem, rather then giving up and having a 650 euro plus paperweight doing nothing in my machine

BadCharlie

I'd contact the manufactores and c what they have to say about your problem.

gline

Flaccus wrote:

Plenty of people have it working perfectly in sli too. If it was me I would be trying to solve the problem, rather then giving up and having a 650 euro plus paperweight doing nothing in my machine

but there are also people that didnt manage to get it fixed

Flaccus

Look at the motherboard forum on the evga site. Some people have hardly any drop in 3dmark06 using sli.


From what I can gather, you need to :
1. do the bios update via a dos boot floppy
2. install g80 drivers with 1 card
3. add 2nd card for sli, reinstall drivers.
4. install latest DX9.

plonk

Does anybody know when the low end versions of these cards are coming out. Say the equivalent of the 7600

awhir

probley not until the 2nd range come out.

how the case going.

Richard Dower

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36106

HAHAHAHA!!

Psycopat

cant wait for amd's card, they spent longer on it so it should be faster

Flaccus

Richard Dower wrote:

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36106

HAHAHAHA!!

So Richard - what are you laughing at - the people who bought G80's with the refresh so close ? There are those of us that want the fastest hardware out there, though I admit with the refresh around the corner I could have waited but that would just be common sense then

13,443 is my latest score in 3dmark06 at 660/1060, 3.3ghz QX6700 at stock volts, memory at 900mhz,4,4,4,12,2.2v. Not too shabby for 1 gpu. CPU runs a bit hot, but then again I have everything running at 1200rpm max.


http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/8389/3dmark06kk2.jpg

gline

good score flac

i havent got around to do anything with mine yet, need to get my hands on a serial cable for the vapo to change the temps

gline

finally got all my fans sorted and the case all cut and screwed in, should try and get sli fixed today or tomorrow

Flaccus

Excellent! Looking forward to seeing those sli scores give my rig a trouncing.
<cough>My Quad Core is up on adverts now

Psycopat

Flaccus wrote:

<cough>My Quad Core is up on adverts now

why?

CivilServant

Flaccus wrote:

Excellent! Looking forward to seeing those sli scores give my rig a trouncing.
<cough>My Quad Core is up on adverts now

lol


edit: just looked at your adverts thread. Surely you can avail of the cooloff period that komplett have? slashing €500 off a premium product like that is mad

Flaccus

why? if you read the ad it's clear why.

who said I slashed 500 euro off it.
1. I got an extreme edition presler in part exchange plus 500 euro.
2. I almost never pay retail prices for my cpu.

CivilServant

ah, excuse the bleary eyedness

Anti

You have more money then sence flaccus

Im only hitting 8300 in 06. with the cpu at 3.6ghz ( banzai, non orthos stable ) And the graphics card just above standard speeds. Mine dosent seem to overclock well. Still it was only a stop gap before the newer releases in the new year.

gline

having a lot of trouble with this rig, with 750watt psu powering vapo+hdds etc 12V is @ 10v , thats with the secondary cpu powering the gtx's , tried loads of combinations and cant get anything else to boot

Flaccus

Lots of PSU's require a min. load on the 5v and 3.3v rail before they do anthing. But I guess you have tried different combos including running 1 card from 1 psu and 1 from another. Maybe the problem is the vapo and how much juice/amps that needs. Did you try running without if first ?

gline

no i didnt try running it without the vapo first, the system is running, but when under high load it shuts down


what is a good monster psu to use that has 4 pci-e connectors? and has very good 12V rails

i was looking at the bfg 1000watt psu or a tagan 900watt.

anyone else know of any to recommend?