Colonel_Panic
Limp Gawd
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- Oct 5, 2009
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Hello [H] friends, I'm hoping to probe the collective intelligence of [H]ard to solve a problem that has flummoxed both my friend and I for quite some time. Previously I posted about an issue with triple SLI GTX580 and since then I have some additional information.
The initial issue is that my friend's system with 3x GTX 580 cards would not function in SLI mode. After loading the cards, the entire system would shut down. Tonight, aided by using EVGA Precision to display % and temps on a 3DConnexion SpacePilot Pro, we were able to see that the temperature of the card spikes to 100C or more. Since the entire system is cooled by water, we have no doubt that the temperatures are incorrect. What could cause that?
The strangest bit is that we disabled SLI and still have the same behaviour when using individual cards. When I ran Furmark with a single card, the temperature climbed rapidly up to 100C and the system shut down. Since it then happened again when using the second card as the primary, we thought it would have to be something further upstream, perhaps mobo BIOS.
Google searches yield similar problems. Any suggestions? Where else should I look?
The initial issue is that my friend's system with 3x GTX 580 cards would not function in SLI mode. After loading the cards, the entire system would shut down. Tonight, aided by using EVGA Precision to display % and temps on a 3DConnexion SpacePilot Pro, we were able to see that the temperature of the card spikes to 100C or more. Since the entire system is cooled by water, we have no doubt that the temperatures are incorrect. What could cause that?
The strangest bit is that we disabled SLI and still have the same behaviour when using individual cards. When I ran Furmark with a single card, the temperature climbed rapidly up to 100C and the system shut down. Since it then happened again when using the second card as the primary, we thought it would have to be something further upstream, perhaps mobo BIOS.
Google searches yield similar problems. Any suggestions? Where else should I look?