2 x GTX 460s freezing in games

kPATm · 10 Feb 2013 at 12:05

But would the fact that my CPU is a bottleneck also be causing the lockups?

Gregster · 10 Feb 2013 at 12:28

Nope, that would be something else.

Have you tried upping the voltage od downclocking the cards and then gaming?

kPATm · 10 Feb 2013 at 13:41

In the GPUz images above is the bus interface correct? I did do the render test in full-screen but nothing changed?

kPATm · 10 Feb 2013 at 13:45

I also ran 3DMARK11 again and both GPU's went to 100% usage?

teenwolf · 10 Feb 2013 at 13:46

Marine-RX179 · 10 Feb 2013 at 13:59

kPATm said:
I also ran 3DMARK11 again and both GPU's went to 100% usage?

Benchmark usually does not require uber CPU to get GPU usage to 100% like games do.

kPATm · 10 Feb 2013 at 14:01

Ah OK. But what about the Bus interface of my 2 cards?

setter · 10 Feb 2013 at 14:16

Pcie bus speeds are correct @x16 1.1, (the 680i is a pcie 1.1 board.) Your gpu's are pcie 2.0 but are backwards compatible.

Marine-RX179 · 10 Feb 2013 at 14:18

kPATm said:
Ah OK. But what about the Bus interface of my 2 cards?

Well, I don't think there should any problem with you board...I agree with above that the E8400 is not fast enough to provide the scaling needed for making most of the SLI GTX460. But yea the crashes is a separate unrelated issue.

teenwolf · 10 Feb 2013 at 14:22

it could be the pci express slot.

plus that board is a bit long in the tooth now.

kPATm · 10 Feb 2013 at 14:24

Im going to put 1 of the cards in the 8x slot to see if it makes a difference.

teenwolf · 10 Feb 2013 at 14:29

you are using a sli bridge

kPATm · 10 Feb 2013 at 14:34

Bridge is in place yes. I ran a Heaven benchmark

Is this good/bad ?

teenwolf · 10 Feb 2013 at 14:35

get the cpu upto 4ghz

kPATm · 10 Feb 2013 at 15:48

Its actually running at 3.7Ghz

teenwolf · 10 Feb 2013 at 16:06

tbh mate i would do a fresh install to rule out software.

kPATm · 10 Feb 2013 at 19:55

Cant use a 8x slot as there isnt room :-(

Really dont want to reinstall. The fact that 3DMark 2011 runs fine with a decent score is confusing. I know 3DMark doesnt stress the cards but surely it stresses them enought that if it crashes in games within minutes it would crash in 3DMark?

teenwolf · 10 Feb 2013 at 19:59

forget 3dmark.
i would say that an install is all left to do.

Gregster · 10 Feb 2013 at 20:39

kPATm said:
Cant use a 8x slot as there isnt room

Really dont want to reinstall. The fact that 3DMark 2011 runs fine with a decent score is confusing. I know 3DMark doesnt stress the cards but surely it stresses them enought that if it crashes in games within minutes it would crash in 3DMark?

No need to reinstall and I understand your concerns.

Have you tried different drivers? Try several versions until you find ones that run stable in games.

Not sure what you are using now but a few people have had issues with the latest 313.96 310.XX variants.

Try 306.23 and see if they help. click custom install and do a clean install.

biuro74 · 10 Feb 2013 at 20:53

I had the same with my StrikerIIExtreme mobo with SLI.

Short investigation revealed both bridges (NB and SB) were hot, and one of them too hot. All I've done was to completely take out cooling system, replace "this thing" present between chipset and radiators and replace with decent paste, it was Zalman STG-2. Hours spent in net gave me knowledge that all nForce chipsets was hot in such cases, so your 680i chipset probably overheats for 99,9%.

After that temps went down 20-30 degrees and PC didn'd hang up anymore.