I've recently purchased a couple of MSI GTX460 1GB Cyclone cards to run in SLI.
All seemed fine at first for a couple of days but now things ain't going so well.
Temp-wise the top card was running hot at around 90-95c under heavy use with the bottom card hitting about 60c. Obviously this was a little to hot so I bought a couple of Antec spot fans to help out. Then things started to go wrong. The PC would crash randomly when playing BFBC2. I'm aware of the driver issues with this game but it ran fine for a couple of days. It would then crash whenever it felt like it. Windows 7 crash reported a problem with the nvidia drivers with error code 43.
I've tried uninstalling the driver and cleaning it up with Driver Sweeper and reinstalling it but to no avail.
At this point I upgraded the PSU to the Corsair 850w HX to see if it was a power issue but alas no, the issues just seem to get worse.
I'm now running on one card and it seems stable. Both cards seem fine on their own but as soon as I run them in SLI the random crashes start.
I'm out of idea's on what to try next... is it a hardware or driver issue? Should I send them back and try a different set of 460's ones with exhaust coolers instead of the open design of the Cyclones?
Any advice would be appreciated.
All seemed fine at first for a couple of days but now things ain't going so well.
Temp-wise the top card was running hot at around 90-95c under heavy use with the bottom card hitting about 60c. Obviously this was a little to hot so I bought a couple of Antec spot fans to help out. Then things started to go wrong. The PC would crash randomly when playing BFBC2. I'm aware of the driver issues with this game but it ran fine for a couple of days. It would then crash whenever it felt like it. Windows 7 crash reported a problem with the nvidia drivers with error code 43.
I've tried uninstalling the driver and cleaning it up with Driver Sweeper and reinstalling it but to no avail.
At this point I upgraded the PSU to the Corsair 850w HX to see if it was a power issue but alas no, the issues just seem to get worse.
I'm now running on one card and it seems stable. Both cards seem fine on their own but as soon as I run them in SLI the random crashes start.
I'm out of idea's on what to try next... is it a hardware or driver issue? Should I send them back and try a different set of 460's ones with exhaust coolers instead of the open design of the Cyclones?
Any advice would be appreciated.