devilhunter Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Hello,I bought an Alienware with 880m sli, I had a good deal for that laptop despite all the warnings and negative feedback on 880m.Anyways, I keep getting a low 3dmark Fire Strike 1.1 score, the score varries from 8400 to 8700! I flashed both cards with a custom vbios ( SV17 & Jhon) and got even a lower score...I turned off cpu overclocking, hooked the laptop to an exteral monitor, and the score was still low meaning I dont have power isssues.I used MSI Afterburn to monitor both GPU activities and in fact they managed to run constantly at 995 Mhz @ 79~82 C max temperature!Something is wrong here and I cant figure it out. I used a different driver 337X but stills, same problems.My single GPU test yeilds in a score of 5500, I should be getting the double of that when running both GPUs.Thanks all and sorry for my ****ty English.Please advise! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D2ultima Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 That's not "weird" that's "880M". It's a problem that has plagued those cards in SLI since their inception. You might get decent in-game performance but your synthetic benchmarks I believe will forever take a hit.You would quite literally be better off selling the 880Ms and buying two 780Ms and overclocking them slightly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobbey Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 is there maybe a vbios update from your manufacturer's website.. i have a laptop with SLI as well and i needed to update my vbios until SLI worked.. maybe theres just 1 video card running.. that would explain your bad scores Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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