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DISCLAIMER: I understand that SLI support, as a whole, is awful, however what I am doing should work in theory--so I wanted to post it up anyway, for "kicks" if you will.
SPEC:
Intel 4690K
Gigabyte G1-SNIPER-5 (Z87)
16GB G.Skill Sniper DDR3-2400
Corsair TX1000 PSU
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (fully patched)
Anyway, in trying to a double up my GPU (GTX 970) I appear to have broken something. First, I did the lazy thing and just added the second GPU--figuring eh if it works great. It actually did, and SLI option got enabled automatically, but then the system blue screened on me when I attempted to restart. So, disconnected one card and booted in safe mode, uninstalled drivers via Add/Remove programs, and then ran DDU to clean up yada yada yada. Then, shut down.
Connected the second card again and proceeded to boot Windows 10 normally and install the latest WHQL drivers off of the NV site. The installation seemed to go well, but then something odd happened. The system wouldn't reboot, so I had to help it along. After it came back online, no SLI option and one GPU was flagged in device manager as having issues (code 43 maybe)? So, that's sort of where I'm at now.
Now, I should mention that these cards aren't identical. One is a NVIDIA reference and the other is a MSI GamingX (with likely higher clocks). I've done this before with a pair of EVGA GTX 980's, which worked fine, so I feel that this shouldn't be too much different.
Thoughts? I'll probably just end up using my single GTX 1080 in this machine instead anyway, but that seems overkill for 1080P gaming @ 60hz.
SPEC:
Intel 4690K
Gigabyte G1-SNIPER-5 (Z87)
16GB G.Skill Sniper DDR3-2400
Corsair TX1000 PSU
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (fully patched)
Anyway, in trying to a double up my GPU (GTX 970) I appear to have broken something. First, I did the lazy thing and just added the second GPU--figuring eh if it works great. It actually did, and SLI option got enabled automatically, but then the system blue screened on me when I attempted to restart. So, disconnected one card and booted in safe mode, uninstalled drivers via Add/Remove programs, and then ran DDU to clean up yada yada yada. Then, shut down.
Connected the second card again and proceeded to boot Windows 10 normally and install the latest WHQL drivers off of the NV site. The installation seemed to go well, but then something odd happened. The system wouldn't reboot, so I had to help it along. After it came back online, no SLI option and one GPU was flagged in device manager as having issues (code 43 maybe)? So, that's sort of where I'm at now.
Now, I should mention that these cards aren't identical. One is a NVIDIA reference and the other is a MSI GamingX (with likely higher clocks). I've done this before with a pair of EVGA GTX 980's, which worked fine, so I feel that this shouldn't be too much different.
Thoughts? I'll probably just end up using my single GTX 1080 in this machine instead anyway, but that seems overkill for 1080P gaming @ 60hz.
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