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Firestrike Extreme Bench.

Nickolp1974 said:
@Kaap or anyone with dual, whats the easiest way of testing a single card?
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All I do is disable SLI in the NVidia control panel and if the mobo allows it, I turn off the other PCI-E slots.

Scoreboard updated.:)

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If you are watercooling multi GPUs, when you turn off the other PCI-E slots (and cards) all the cooling used for 4 cards is available to a single card which is a nice bonus. Better still if you are benching from a cold start up the other unused cards work as a heatsink helping to keep the temps down.
 
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Kaapstad said:
All I do is disable SLI in the NVidia control panel and if the mobo allows it, I turn off the other PCI-E slots.

Scoreboard updated.:)
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thx, dont have that option on my mobo like on the rive, so obviously my top card is the hottest but my bottom card has the higher asic and can clock that bit better, which way round would you put them????
 
Take out the power cables if you cant disable the lanes via mobo? That used to work for me when running UD5H :)
I'd also put your better clocking card on the top, worse clocking on the bottom making it a few C cooler, hopefully you'll get similar clocks. Until you drown them :D
 
Nickolp1974 said:
thx, dont have that option on my mobo like on the rive, so obviously my top card is the hottest but my bottom card has the higher asic and can clock that bit better, which way round would you put them????
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Best card on top for single and dual card benching. The top card if faster can carry the slower card a little bit and sometimes you can get higher clocks off the slower card.

On the RIVE the top card also gets to run @PCI-E x16.
 
Tonester0011 said:
Take out the power cables if you cant disable the lanes via mobo? That used to work for me when running UD5H :)
I'd also put your better clocking card on the top, worse clocking on the bottom making it a few C cooler, hopefully you'll get similar clocks. Until you drown them :D
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thx bud, wont it still recognise the card though with the cables out as its still getting some power from the pcie slot????

cant wait for blocks with these and neil is sending me his evbot, so i can have a good play then :D still not sure what voltage i can push through the memory, i have only took it too 1.69v, any ideas??
 
Kaapstad said:
Best card on top for single and dual card benching. The top card if faster can carry the slower card a little bit and sometimes you can get higher clocks off the slower card.

On the RIVE the top card also gets to run @PCI-E x16.
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thx kaap, i shall give it a whirl tomorrow, off for a curry now ;)
i'm running x8 on both gen 3.0, not doing too bad ;)
 
Nickolp1974 said:
thx bud, wont it still recognise the card though with the cables out as its still getting some power from the pcie slot????

cant wait for blocks with these and neil is sending me his evbot, so i can have a good play then :D still not sure what voltage i can push through the memory, i have only took it too 1.69v, any ideas??
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Only the fans and lights tend to work when you've taken out the power cables, having a board that can turn off lanes is a lot easier :D Should work regardless though, i mean that's how i used to play with other cards back when i was on Z77.

Not sure on memory volts, really not looked into the classy tbh kinda lost interest in upgrading again, not too sure what i want to do :(
 
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