TimeLord84

Does anybody have a stock 680m vbios? I flashed my card a while back but it wont allow updating the drivers. I'm stuck on 335.23. Everytime i update drivers my card is no longer recognized after a reboot. I have to revert back to 335.23 to get it recognized. I'm on a Clevo P170EM / Sager NP9170

Any help would be appreciated

I have the default BIOS' for my old Sager NP9370 680m's. I will look for them and get back to you.

Does it crash? Or how does it behave? Which driver?

No crashing so far.

I ran GPU-Z render test and the second card just stays in PCIe 1.0 and at a hard 875Mhz without any variance, until the render test is stopped. Even fired up Dark Souls II and it ran fine, no crashes.

Using the newest Nvidia Driver 340.52 and the Vbios I used was the " Nvidia GTX Titan - 80.10.2C.0.06 'OC edition' v03 ".

Hey guys, it's been a while but I'm back.

I flashed both Titans and now I can't get the second card to run past 875Mhz. The first one goes to 1.2Ghz no prob, and I tried to disable and re-enable SLI to see if that would help but still the same.

Any guesses?

Thanks so much,

Alex

Thanks for the input everyone.

On a side note. The new Nvidia beta drivers 320.00 gave me a nice boost. In firestrike I got almost 17k overall and over 20k GPU score!

NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-3930K Processor,ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. SABERTOOTH X79 score: P16865 3DMarks

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Yeah I understand alright, he was trying to sell you a more expensive PSU lol! The AX860i has enough power in the 12v rail to handle two Titans.

Well I was able to return the 860i even though I'm way past the 7 day return policy and I got the 1200i but I was able to find what that guy was showing me. Again, this probably makes more sense to you than it does me but here goes:

Voltage +3.3V +5V +12V -12V +5VSB

Power Input	25A	25A	71.6A	0.8A	3.0A
Combined Power	125W	860W	9.6W	15W
Total Power	860W

That's for the 860i PSU. You can see the +12V has 71.6A.

The video card says the requirements are as follows and those stats times 2 cards add up to more than the PSU apparently supports:

• 600 Watt Power Supply (minimum 42 Amps @ 12 volts)

Use kill-a-watt and see what the system is pulling from the wall. That will let you know if you are hitting a power wall or not but I doubt it. Even under 100% CPU/GPU load you won't pull more than 800 watts and that AX860i can handle that.

Edit: I was right, see here: GeForce GTX Titan 3-way SLI and Multi monitor review - Power Consumption

Well from the article it would appear that everything should be just fine which rests my mind a little. First off I just want to make it abundantly clear that I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to PC building. I've been a console gamer for years and then a laptop owner for 3 years so my experience with these details is only recent.

With that said. The guy at the computer store that sold me my 2nd Titan told me that I'll be under-powered with this PSU and that the wattage only tells part of the story. He pulled up the details for the Titan and showed me this: 600 Watt Power Supply (minimum 42 Amps @ 12 volts) and he went on that my PSU can not accommodate 42 Amps x 2..

Do you understand any of what he meant?

Plus, does anyone truly know if this Legacy mode for PCIe really affect my GPUs performances??

Nvidia GTX Titan SLI or as @Brian says "Damn you Conkers!"

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So there it is, the real successor of the GTX580 chip, how much rumour was out there over the months.

Nvidia broke my resistance, I had to buy at least one card. I managed to get two of those beasts, I know the price is ridiculous but for a triple display setup it's totally worth it.

The cards are working in my Xigmatek case along with the GTX670, which is now dedicated to Physx.

At the time Intel will release Haswell processors, I'll move the cards in a smaller case with an mATX board.

My Xigmatek Elysium case is reserved for another project, which I will show to you at a later date, maybe by the end of this week or next week.

Comparison: Asus MarsII vs Asus GTX Titan vs Asus GTX670 DCII Top

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System overview:

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Benchmark results:

[email protected]|GTX Titan SLI@997/1036/1502 (core/boost/memory)

all screenshots viewable on SkyDrive link below

3DMark (2013):

Ice Storm: 174921

Cloud Gate: 37593

Fire Strike: 15669

Fire Strike Extreme: 9056 (9999GPUscore damn )

3DMark11:

Entry: 26584

Performance: 22121

Extreme: 10498

3DMark Vantage:

Entry: 94976

Performance: 60240

Extreme: 48495

Unigine Heaven:

Extreme: 3350 / 133.0FPS

Unigine Valley:

ExtremeHD: 5061 / 121.0FPS

Full resolution pics and benchmarks: Click here

Hey brother

So your bench scores are pretty nice. I got 20k in 3dm11 and I'm still having apparent performances issues and I'm thinking about upgrading my power supply and motherboard and hope for the best.

What are your clock speeds for your Titans and your i7?

I have a Gigabyte X79-UP4 with 3930k at 4.6Ghz, 2 Asus Titan's and 16gb of 1600mhz RAM on Windows 8 Pro + Corsair AX860i PSU. NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-3930K Processor,Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. X79-UP4 score: P20260 3DMarks

Note: I had to enable Legacy mode on the PCIe to get this Titan to even work and also needed a beta BIOS.. Can't be a good sign, right? My WEI graphics are 8.3.

Thanks in advance,

Alex

Well it looks like I'm on my way to pick up my second titan

Well since I've been having performance issues here and there I have been trying to find out if it's something fixable. One thing I noticed is that my PCIE reading was 2.0 16x so I used an Nvidia patch to open up my 3.0 but I don't think it made a difference. I guess only Ivy Bridge i7's are really PCIE 3.0, which is funny cause only LGA1155 are 3.0 with Ivy's and my LGA2011 Sandy mobo says it supports 3.0.. But maybe I'm missing something..

When I bought my parts for the new computer I was really surprised to find out the 3900k CPU's were last generation.

I'm going to get that 2nd Titan in my hands before I worry about switching mobo's and leave that as a last resort but something seems fishy in my system right now. Heck I got a drop in fps in Crysis 2 for crying out loud.. Just strange, even though my 3Dmark scores seems right on.

Things were so simple with my SLI'd 680m mobile

@TimeLord84 what is the ASIC reading on your Titan? You use GPU-Z to find it.

I don't know what an ASIC reading is and cannot seem to find it on GPU-Z. Can you direct me please?

EDIT: okay I figured it out. My ASIC reading in 70.8%. What the heck is that?

Averaging around 80fps in MP and never dropping below 60 and around 60 average in SP and the lowest I seen was 40 in the financial district part of level 3. Very High settings and Motion Blur on Med + SMAA X2.

You??

EDIT: oops, always 1080 on single monitor.

Sooo.. I formatted and reinstalled Windows and did everything as clean as I could and Installed the drivers that came with the Titan in the box and I swear NOW my card is performing like a titan.. Crysis 3 is running perfect on the highest settings, except for one part on a MP map that always nets a drop but that's only in one precise spot and looking in a certain direction.. I'm so happy right now..

Next is a Borderlands 2 run and I'll be back.

Things are better but not perfect.. I still want another Titan but maybe it could have something to do with my motherboard. I have a Gigabyte X79-UP4 and I needed a beta BIOS update just to get my system to post with that card.. I wish I knew cause I'd rather spend the money on a new card rather than a board if I don't need to.

My performance is better though so I guess it's a slight win for me right now..

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Where are you going to be posting your benches?? I'm interested in comparisons that I can use to gauge where I'm at performance wise in games like Crysis 3, which I play Very High except Shadows and Shading on Medium and with 2X SMAA to get the best performance.. Obviously I'd love to see some comparatives in Borderlands 2 hopefully but yeah I'm definitely interested in checking out your benches and whatnot.

Do you have any suggestions by chance? I've tried stock clocks and voltages for everything, CPU, GPU, and few other little things but yeah I'm stumped and a little pissed...

This is the first computer that I built but still a computer build is really simple and everything's running normally and my 3Dmarks are on par with similar setups too.

Well I have a single Titan right now and with PhysX on High I get drops down to 25fps @ 1080p. I'm planning on a second card but shouldn't be necessary to play something like that at 1080..

Well actually I'm getting the second one very soon but only running 1 at the moment..

Just got my first Titan couple weeks ago and looking to pick up #2 ASAP.

One question. Do you play borderlands 2 and if so I'm finding I can't max everything out including PhysX on High and keep a solid 60fps in the high action parts, which is like most of the time. I'd like to hear your experiences with 2 Titans if you play that game of course.

Can you some OC on stock bios ?? By me working only memory overclock , core oc doesnt work. Now iam also with default bios v67.

Only memory OC. Even the factory "boost clock" speeds of 758mhz don't even take effect. The default VBIOS is locked as far as GPU OC'ing.

nvflash -6 filename.rom

If you have SLI then it's nvflash -i0 -6 filename.rom -> then for #2 nvflash -i1 -6 filename.rom

At 1000/2400 @ 1.025v when playing crysis3 whitout CM u3 goes up to 93C then the fans start working at 100% and temperature stops at 88C and with CM u3 temperature goes up to 82C.

What temperature do you have. ?

I decided to kill the overclocking for better temps and went with the default VBIOS'. If I play Crysis 3 multiplayer for an hour or so I've had my temps as low as 52*C GPU1 and 59*C GPU2. After a couple of hours of single-player my max on GPU2 is 72-74 but Afterburner shows me I'm running at around 65*C for the most part with the occasional spike to those max temps.

I wanna overclock and get some more power but I want my temps to be reasonable. I went through a bunch of struggles getting my temps down because I was getting 92*C too and really, really didn't like it.

Same with my XM CPU. I wanted to overclock because well.. it IS an XM which is meant to be and it caused my computer to shut down.

I had v67 and now have v33 . I didn't saw any difference form normal user:)

So for a while stay with v33

BTW , Big thanks for Your fantastic works:) Now my GTX 680m is comparable GTX 670 desktop:)

Hey I have the same computer as you and was wondering what your OC GPU temps look like if you don't mind?

As long a both cards are flashed correctly, they will scale to the same maximum overclock. I have two Clevo 680M in my Alienware and they scale to max just fine. However, sometimes the secondary card will not clock to max if the game doesn't have a proper SLI profile or it doesn't utilize the cards fully. So test it in a modern title like Battlefield 3 to make sure.

It would appear that you are quite correct. I just tried running Crysis 2 at maximum settings, with DX11 and high-res textures and voila. Both cards running at the same speed in 99% perfect unison

Thank you both for helping a noob I really appreciate it.

Hey @svl7 I just want to thank you for all your work, spending time for our benefits.

I'm having a problem with overclocking in SLI. It seems that my max clocks aren't the same between the 2 cards and I'm wondering if maybe the VBIOS is specific for Master and Slave GPU's. I'm using the 1.050V Clevo VBIOS and getting this:

I uploaded the two different BIOS' could you mod them each for this 1.050V and OC? It's alright if you don't want to mess around for me but if you do I'm willing to make a donation for your time. Thanks however.

BIOS' here under GPU1 and GPU2: http://rapidshare.com/files/1892850379/SLI%20VBIOS'.rar

Is anyone else using SLI and getting the same thing? Is it actually a problem or is my different max clocks supposed to be like that? Any input would be great.

does anyone have a working nvflash because the newest ones just hang up when I check for adapters. and I most definitely do not want to flash from windows

Here you go mate.. The files you want are inside.

http://rapidshare.com/files/3644594327/OC%20Package.zip

In terms of performance from when I tested, the 80.04.33.00.10 is better. Next is the 80.04.67.00.01 which I ran and was quite good for some time. The .29 was the only vBIOS that dropped in performance for me.

Thank you so much.. I'm really a newb and I just need some education. Much appreciated.