GTX 285's in SLI

[S0ULphIRE]

lol totally forgot about bumping fans up to 100% man I need some sleep

 

[kpat99]

Too early to call it a victory. But i downloaded afterburner, set the fans up at 100% and played crysis 2 for about 30-35 minutes. 3840 X 1024 averaging around 60 fps, had one slowdown to around 6 fps for maybe 2 seconds. I had Hwmonitor running in the background, one card reached 89, the other 74.

Hopefully this solves the problem

Kevin

 

[PP Mguire]

The dip could be drivers. Since that seems to have solved your problem then I think it's a safe bet that heat was in fact a problem.

 

[kpat99]

Just wanted to update thnigs in case anybody was reading this in the future. I had posted my computer was drawing 700 watts under full load...but i had 2 of 3 monitors plugged into the powerbar, therefore my psu was only drawing 600, no problem for a 750 psu.

Also, I think part or most of my problems were coming from my RAM timings. I had it set at 7-8-7-20 which my RAM supports, since i've backed it off to 8-8-8-22 i've had absolutely no problems at all.

Maybe someday this more or less useless info will help someone....

 

[S0ULphIRE]

Thanks for the update.

Just a note, your PSU doesn't power your monitor. Even the PSU models with a second socket for connecting your monitor to, I think that just extends the power port? Nearly 100% sure, but that's without doing any research.

 

[kpat99]

I know, thats why i felt like a jackass. I had two monitors plugged into the powerbar, which plugged into the voltage meter. When i was getting readings off 700 watts i was freaked out but now i realize that 100 watts were the monitors which weren't going through the psu at all

 

[S0ULphIRE]

Lol ah makes sense