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Unigine Heaven 4 benchmark

Use only the ones in green

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Just try connecting your monitor to start with
 
I found this in the nvidia panel help.

To verify that NVIDIA SLI technology is enabled and working

From the NVIDIA Control Panel navigation tree pane, under 3D Settings, select Set SLI configuration.

From the menu bar, click 3D Settings, then click the drop-down menu item Show SLI Visual Indicator.

The following images indicate that SLI technology is active.

A vertical green bar with the text "SLI" appears on the left side of the game screen if SLI AFR rendering is enabled and working.

The antialiasing level with the text "SLI" appears on the game screen if SLI antialiasing is enabled and working.

A green square appears on the primary - or focus - display when the game is viewed in full-screen mode.

If no image appears, then the system is not in SLI mode.

I don't see this in the settings? I've used driver fusion

To do the above you need to be here

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And the option is under 3D settings next to the help menu at the top
 
It's a strange one! do you have a spare HDD that you can try a fresh installation of windows on? If you've exhausted every other avenue.

Yes I do but have to do it later. thanks for helping anyways.

When you do the above just have your monitor connected to one of the green DVI outputs

no mate Kaapstad

In my main rig I have 2 gtx 690s but what works for 2 works the same for 1 gtx 690, I often turn one slot off for benchmarking and run on one gtx 690.
 
980MHz/6008Mhz GPU, [email protected] Turbo Boost CPU, Air cooling
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Gripen90
You need to run @1920 x 1080 resolution
Also if you press F12 over the cobbles you will get a screen shot in "your files"/Heaven/screenshots/*.tga
Or you can use FRAPS to take a screenshot.

wow this version is a lot more demanding?! my scores have halved
looks nicer now anyway

2500k @ 4.5ghz
GTX470's SLI 849/1654
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Yes its a lot more demanding
Remember to take your screenshot over the cobbles for it to count.:)

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i5 3570k @ 4.00Ghz
7970 GHZ @ 1100/1500 (stock)

That's still pretty poor isn't it??? Other 7970's seem way above me..

Actually its not bad at all, all the other 7970s are overclocked quite a bit
 
Been away Kaapstad. You can't see SLI with just 1 card. You have to have 2 690's . I know theirs 2 GPU's on the it. It shows both cores running, but to see SLI you need 2 cards. I've been doing a little searching on this matter.
I did heaven and got 60 to 73 FPS on this test. I would put it up, but my print screen isn't working again. I'll put up a pic later when I can.

Here is a run I just did with a single GTX 690 @stock CPU @4.0

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If you are getting the same or better then problem solved

This is what I get with NCP using one card (the PCI-E slot for the other card is turned off so PC does not even know its there).

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The scores about the same. So I guess it's ok then. I'm happy with that score. It's more then double of what a 7970 would do. After all that drama last night trying to get SLI working I missed all the Titan news? So what's happened with Titan? How much is it and is it more powerful then a gtx 690? Anyways thanks for at least trying to help me yesterday even though it doesn't even need SLI;) thanks mate:D

This is what Gibbo posted yesterday

Hi there

Right time now I can speak!

Titan is GK110.
It has 2668 Cores.
6GB of GDDR5 RAM.
Cost to customer with VAT shall be £830-£900 depending on availability.

In short the specs floating about are correct and the pricing I've just put above.

We have Asus, Gigabyte and EVGA on the way.

Pre-orders shall be available on website 2pm Thursday.

There will be reviews on Thursday, I expect they will have a heavy emphasis on multi monitor resolutions where the Titan will be strong. I think they will downplay single monitor gaming where the Titan is weak compared to a GTX 690 or 2 x GTX 680s/HD7970s
 
Kaapstad, sorry but I got it wrong. My GPU's are KFA2 EX OC which I believe run at 1006MHz. Sorry for the confusion. Also my 2nd slot is only running at 8x which probably explains a bit of a lower score...?

No probs I will change it now.

Edit your score looks fine for 1006/1502

PCI-E 2 or 3 @x8 does not make much difference to performance.
 
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Ah ok, I'd heard that but wasn't sure. Thanks! Been trying out Crysis 3 and I'm not getting good results, so I was getting a tad worried.

I own a pair of GTX 590s, on the mobo they are using one runs @x16 and the other @x8. When I change this so both run @x16 and run an older version of heaven, the difference in framerates is less than 0.5 of a fps. Total performance difference is also less than half of one percent.
 
How much a GPU boosts is connected to how hot it is running. Once a 6 series card hits 70c it will boost 13mhz lower than if it was running @69c or lower. If the GPU reaches 80c it will lose another 13mhz in boost and another 13mhz at 90c. So the trick is to keep the card as cool as possible.

If you set the power higher the card will be able to run higher clocks but this can be cancelled out by the GPU running hotter and losing boost.

One way to monitor boost is to watch the GPU clock speed on the sensor tab of GPUz
 
Thanks, is there seperate memory and core temps? I only have one and have a custom fan curve so it has never goes above 67c.

Seems weird to me that I set boost to +120 so in theory should hit 1100 max. But instead boosts to 1202 (+222)

60c - 65% fan
65c - 70% fan

Edit - all explained here - http://www.overclock.net/t/1265110/the-gtx-670-overclocking-master-guide

My Kelper boost is 104. So 980+120+104 = 1204

The main thing is keeping your temps below 70c then you will get the maximum boost available.
 
not really, If I up the power limit % from 118 to 120 or 122 then it fails. Upping core voltage doesn't seem to help either

It would be simple if it was a case of 'carry on overclocking until temps reach 70' ...but its not

Thats done to how good your GPU is, rather than how the boost works.

On my 690s if I set the power to 135% the maximum boost available goes down as the GPUs are getting hot. If I set the power to 120% I get higher boost as the GPU is not getting so hot.

Where life gets really complicated is on benchmarks if I set the power to 135% I get a bigger score even though the max boost is lower. I think the higher power helps with the min/average fps.

The main thing is if you keep your temps below 70c this will help you with whatever other settings you are using.
 
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