Well Asus linked me to a different driver and everything seems to be running like it should so far. Fingers crossed becasue I can't return the cards to newegg haha
Yeah i sure be able to send them back. I just got them in yesterday. I wish i would've known that before I bought them haha, my fault for not researching enough.
if you can i would return them anyways, SLI support from game developpers is at it's lowest in years at this point...and you still have cards with 3.5GB of video memory (+ a slower 500mb extra) which won't be enough to run high quality textures in games for long...you also have higher power consumption which means more noise and more heat output and increased energy bills...and you'll have trouble with micro-stuttering, driver crashes, compatibility with games etc.
in benchmarks, yes it works great in benchmarks because they have been codded to respond well to multiple graphics cards, but not that many games are like that...to game developpers, PC gaming is kind of a niche market already...let alone multi GPU users on PC...so optimising and developping games for SLI or crossfire to them is really not worth it, and it will likely never be either.