try reinstalling the drivers using driver cleaner 3 and make sure you leave all the settings to default, except the one setting that asks you if you want to use sli. Tell us how it goes.
man just add another gt to your system and you'll outperform a 7800 gtx 512. Then wait for the next generation super card to come out that can outperform your 2 gt's and buy one of them. But make sure it can beat them by a reasonable margin or there is no point in wasting your money. Since...
I'm not sure if you'll have to change any settings in the bios, cause I didn't. But you have a different motherboard. It looks like you've covered pretty much everything. You obviously also know to put the sli bridge in there as well. Yea other than that you'll just have to check a little box in...
"your card should be strong enough to Handle HDR.. are you using Direct 3d or Open GL? I know for a fact, that Open GL is perfect for ATI cards... so you might want to give that a try."
Um actually ATI is stronger in D3D. Also, Counter-strike: Source, is only available in D3D. Man it's a...
517 is clocked at 470, while the 516 is clocked at 460. Plus the 517 has a copper heat sink. And I think the 518 is clocked at 445 or something. So the 517 is deffinately the way to go.
Yes you deffinately would need a better PSU. That would be sufficient for maybe one raptor, and the sli configuration, but when you add in 6 more hard drives, you're deffinately going to require a better psu.
I'm confused about what I should set the sli option too...and what the purpose of the profiles are? What do they do? Do they override the global settings that I set?
The advanced setting I'm talking about is:
"When Sli is enabled use: Sli Single-GPU rendering" Instead of SLI Single-GPU rendering there are all the other choices as well, including SLI-AA, AFR,AFR2, etc
This makes absolutely no sense. I have set it to sli-enabled, and then under rendering mode when I set it to single-gpu, it still runs sli, and single gpu actually runs better than multi-gpu rendering...What do these settings mean, cause they can't possibly mean what I thought they...
Then how come when I do a benchmark with fraps for day of defeat source, with sli multi-gpu rendering and sli single-gpu rendering I get better fps with the single gpu rendering?
How come in the latest nvidia drivers there are only 3 sli settings: sli-multi-gpu, sli-single-gpu, and sli-AA. I thought there were other ones like alternate frame rendering and such. Also what's sli-single gpu?
System:
FX-55
2xevga 7800 gt co
dfi lanparty nf4 sli-d
2gb mushkin redline...
Which nvidia drivers would give me the best performance? Are the omegas or dna ones anygood? Is there a specific driver release that seems to yield better performance?
System:
FX-55
2xevga 7800 gt co
dfi lanparty nf4 sli-d
74 gb raptor
2gb redline mushkin PC4000
etc.
Ok, I just wanna know if my system is better or worse than an xbox360...cause I paid a hell of alot for it.
System:
FX-55@2.8ghz
2xEVGA 7800 GT CO
DFI LANPARTY nf4 SLI-D
10,000 rpm 74gb raptor
2gb mushkin redline pc4000 ddr500
clearly its not the monitor if you're taking a screen shot of it, and see the problem in the screen shot...its deffinately your video card. Try different drivers and see if that helps. If not, I think you're gonna need a new video card.