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X6800
7950GX2
2GB Ram

All at stock and I get 5124 in 3D Mark 06. Is this normal or crap? Any ways to improve the result?
 
Crap...enable SLI ;)

Your should be looking for around 8000 on stock with that setup. Overclocked around 10500.

91.45 drivers seem to work best for SLI as for some reason SLI dosn't always work for me with the 91.47's.

I'm currently using 93.71 beta drivers which so far work fantastic.
 
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Enable sli, I already did enable the multi GPU option. What do I do now? And im using the latest driver which is 91.47. Even with multi GPU enabled, why am i still getting crap scores?
 
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Go into your nVidia control panel and make sure you have things like AA and AF set to application controlled.
 
Have you enabled SLI in the bios?

This could be a complete waste of time, but if the nvidia control panel can display the temps for both cards, run 3Dmark again and make sure the temps of both cards rise while its running.

As i said, could be a complete waste of time, but i have no other ideas. :(
 
I honestly dont know, i've never worked on an SLI rig, but i couldnt see why nvidia would only support one temp monitor in the drivers even when people have SLI. If i were you, i'd head into the bios and have a look around for an SLI option.
 
Omg, im bad at bios thingy, but where do I see the options for sli etc?


And look at this crap score.

SOMEONE HELP
 
Does asus p5h dh deluxe supports gx2? I asked in guru3d forum and one of them said that it might be mobo problem and said abt flashing. How do I go abt doing this?
 
w3bbo said:
91.45 drivers seem to work best for SLI as for some reason SLI dosn't always work for me with the 91.47's.

I'm currently using 93.71 beta drivers which so far work fantastic.
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Take his advice use the beta drivers
 
Unless you bought the P5W DH motherboard ages ago, as in. over three months ago, it should well just run it out of the box. Mine did, bought in August.
My GX2 only displays one temp in the nvidia control panel because it reckons that it's one card. If you get something like everest, it'll show you both of them.

It sounds like it's literally that the SLi functionality isn't working for some reason and that's one of your cards running and giving you that score. As that's pretty much spot on what the score should be in single gpu mode.
Honestly, I couldn't say why if you've made sure that in the driver control panel, you've turned it to multiple gpu mode.
The only setting I know that'll override the option in the panel to turn it from multiple to single gpu mode, is enabling the highest "SLI" settings of both AF and AA in either the general profile or the 3dmark profile. When those are enabled, as far as I'm aware, it doesn't use the second card/gpu for actual rendering? I haven't read into it, someone who has would be able to explain far better or tell me if I'm lying.

I would recommend some heavy searching of this forum and some googling, because I know I've seen a whole bunch of thread titles with this issue.
 
1. Install the 91.45 drivers
2. Reboot
3. DO NOT ENTER NVIDIA CONTROL PANEL (everything will be set to defaults)
4. Run 3d mark06 again
5. Report back to us.

The GX2 works fine on the P5WDH(its what I use). It has a 16x PCI-E slot which is all thats required, you don't need to configure any bios settings for SLI with this board. If you mess with the settings in the control panel then it can upset the SLI configuration so just leave it alone. I have found that 91.47 drivers can sometimes disable SLI of its own accord whereas the 91.45s work 100% all of the time. Hope this helps, let us know how you go.
 
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