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SLI Overclocking Question

They way I understand it, SLI operates at the slowest rate of any card in the array. So if even if one card's core and memory clock rate is higher, the other will operate at that speed.

To be honest, I don't know how you would set differenent clock speeds for differenent cards, at least though the nVidia control panel. There you can only set one clock rate as far a I know, and it affects both cards.
 
I adjusted speeds of both cards via bios flash.. .I just need to know if one 7800GT is running at 590/1280 and the other is running at 625/1350 if it will cause problems. If it will cause the faster card to run slower or even the other way around.. Right now I flashed both cards to run at 590/1280 until I find out for sure...
 
the bios sets the startup clocks in dos mode, when you get to windows the driver and the options set in the driver program sets what the clocks will run at when in games or 2d mode.

i would assume that you would want both bios's to be the same, although they will run with different bios's. its just one way to make sure that it doesnt add instability into your system.

if you go into rivatuner open the hardware moniter, now goto the main page of riva, where it shows the target adapter, the pull down menu will have 2 monitors in there, the plug and play will be the pri card, and the default will be the sec. card, run rthdribl_1_2, and check the clocks in the graph, switch the target adapters and you will see any difference in the cards, you will most likely have the same speeds, the only difference you should see is the pri. card will be a few degrees hotter then the sec. card

my specs:
ASUS A8N-SLI Premium AMD Athlon 64 4000+ Sandy 2700 MHz, FSB 225 MHz, Memory 2048 MB
Display Information
NVIDIA eVGA GeForce 7800 GTx2 Driver Ver. 8.1.9.8 Video Mem. 256 MB running @ 540/1260 stable, idle temp 36c/ load 56-61c, zalman cooling,

Core Clock single GT 525 MHz/Mem Clock single GT 1282 MHz
3DMark05 Score single GT 8547 3DMarks CPU Score single GT 5545 CPUMarks
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=1705607
Core Clock SLI 534 MHz/Mem Clock SLI 1282 MHz
3DMark05 Score SLI 12062 3DMarks CPU Score SLI 5135 CPUMarks
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=1578033
Core Clock SLI 535 MHz/Mem Clock SLI 1260 MHz
3DMark06 Score 6516 3DMarks/SM 2.0 Score 3497 Marks
SM 3.0 Score 3326 Marks/CPU Score 1115 Marks
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=11796
 
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